THE  LIBERATOR 


And  as  ye  go,   preach,   saying,    The  kingdom  of  heaven 
is  at  hand.      Heal  the,  sick  cleanse  the  lepers,  raise 
the  dead,   cast  out  devils,    freely  ye  have  re- 
ceived, freely  give.     —JESUS 

By  Jas.  W.  McCIellan 


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James  W.  McClellen 
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PREFACE. 

My  purpose  in  writing  this  book  is  to  present  a 
truth,  which  if  accepted  by  you  who  may  read,  will 
cause  you  to  stop  and  think,  as  it  has  me.  Knowing 
that  if  you  do,  the  seed  of  truth  will  be  so  grounded 
into  you  in  reality,  that  health,  harmony,  joy,  peace 
and  God's  loving  thoughts  will  take  possession  of  the 
so-called  carnal  mind,  and  eradicate  from  it  all 
thoughts  of  sin,  sickness,  and  death,  and  all  evil. 
And  when  this  mind  is  so  corrected,  freed  from  evil 
thinking,  what  will  be  left?  Nothing  but  the  mind 
of  Divine  Love,  God,  to  rule  and  govern  us. 

PSALM  32  8-11. 

8.  I  will  instruct  thee,  and  teach  thee  in  the  way 
which  thou  shalt  go;  I  will  guide  thee  with  mine  eye. 

9.  Be  ye  not  as  the  horse,  or  as  the  mule  which 
have  no  understanding;  whose  mouth  must  be  held 
in  with  bit  and  bridle,  lest  they  come  near  unto  thee. 

10.  Many  sorrows  shall  be  to  the  wicked;  but  he 
that  trusteth  in  the  Lord,  mercy  shall  compass  him 
about. 

11.  Be  glad  in  the  Lord,  and  rejoice  ye  righteous; 
and  about  for  joy,  all  ye  that  are  upright  in  heart. 

PSALM  46  10. 

Be  still,  and  know  that  I  am  God:  I  will  be  ex- 
alted among  the  heathen,  I  will  be  exalted  in  the 
earth. 

PSALM  111. 

JO.  The  fear  of  the  Lord  is  the  beginning  of  wis- 
dom: a  good  understanding  have  all  they  that  do  his 
commandments;  his  praise  endureth  for  ever. 

PSALM  119. 

27.  Make  me  to  understand  the  way  of  thy  pre- 
cepts; so  shall  I  talk  of  thy  wondrous  works. 

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MAN'S  OBEDIENCE  TO  'THEi  GOLDE&i 


1.  And  God  spake  all  these  words,  saying:  — 

2.  I  am  the  Lord  thy  God  which  hath  brought 
thee  out  of  the  land  of  Egypt;  out  of  the  house  of 
bondage. 

3.  Thou  shalt  have  no  other  Gods  before  me  and 
the  explanation  of  this  is,  the  mortal  man  has  been 
sojourning  in  the  land  of  Egypt,  the  land  of  mortal 
belief,  and  is  still  in  bondage  to  the  fleshly  mind. 

4.  Thou  shalt  not  make  unto  thee  any  graven  im- 
age or  any  likeness  of  anything  that  is  in  the  heaven 
above,  or  that  is  in  the  earth  beneath  or  that  is  in 
the  water  under  the  earth. 

SP.  EXP.  The  mortal  man  must  not  entertain  any 
thought  of  life  in  matter  or  any  thought  contrary  to 
life  in  Spirit. 

5.  Thou  shalt  not  bow  down  thyself  to  them,  nor 
serve  them;   for  I  the  Lord  thy  God  am  a  jealous 
God,  visiting  the   iniquity   of  the   fathers  upon  the 
children   unto   the   third   and   fourth    generation   of 
them  that  hate  me; 

SP.  EXP.  We  must  not  bow  down  to  the  errors  of 
mortal  man,  or  cling  to  life  in  matter,  but  know  that 
all  is  mind  and  that  mind  is  God  and  man  His  image. 
This  image  is  not  found  in  the  so-called  fleshly  man. 

6.  And  shewing  mercy  unto  thousands   of  them 
that  love  me  and  keep  my  commandments. 

SP.  EXP.  The  truth  is  ever  merciful  unto  those 
who  love  and  obey  it.  Does  the  so-called  mortal  man 
obey  God?  No  it  is  the  spiritual  man  who  is 
OBEDIENT  TO  GOD'S  COMMANDS. 

7.  Thou  shalt  not  take  the  name  of  the  Lord  thy 


God  in  vain;  for  the  LORD  will  not  hold  him  guilt- 
less that  taketh  His  name  in  vain. 

SP.  EXP.  The  spiritual  man  cannot  take  God's 
name  in  vain.  God's  word  says,  you  cannot  take 
Jrvm  nor  add  to  what  God  has  done.  I  know  that 
whatsoever  God  doeth  it  shall  be  forever. 

8.  Remember  the  Sabbath  day,  to  keep  it  holy. 
SP.  EXP.     We  are  NOW  resting  in  the  Sabbath  if 

we  keep  the  commandments.     We  are  now  resting  in 
God  if  we  love  our  neighbors  as  ourselves. 

9.  Six   days   shalt   thou  labour,   and   do   all   thy 
work; 

SP.  EXP.  God  ended  His  work  in  six  days,  and 
as  we  are  His  image  and  likeness,  we  must  do  like- 
wise, and  then  we  may  expect  an  eternal  Sabbath  of 
rest. 

10.  But  the   seventh   day  is  the  Sabbath  of  the 
Lord  thy  God:  in  it  thou  shalt  not  do  any  work,  thou, 
nor  thy  son,  nor  thy  daughter,  thy  manservant,  nor 
thy  maidservant,  nor  thy  cattle,  nor  thy  stranger  that 
is  within  thy  gates: 

SP.  EXP.  When  man  knows  he  is  resting  in 
SPIRIT,  not  in  matter  he  is  one  with  the  Father, 
keeping  the  Sabbath  day. 

11.  For  in  six  days,  the  Lord  made  heaven  and 
earth,  the  sea,  and  all  that  in  them  is,  and  rested  the 
seventh  day:  wherefore  the  Lord  blessed  the  Sabbath 
day,  and  hallowed  it. 

SP.  EX.  Man  being  the  image  and  likeness  of 
God,  (if  his  true  image)  he  will  rest  with  the  Father 
in  mind,  the  fleshly  man  not  being  GocFs  child. 

12.  Honour  thy  father  and  thy  mother;  that  thy 
days  may  be  long  upon  the  land  which  the  Lord  thy 
God  giveth  thee. 

SP.  EXP.     Be  faithful  to  the  Truth  and  we  honor 
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God.     Deny  all  claims  of  evil  and  affirm  the  Truth. 

13.  Thou  shall  not  kill. 

SP.  EXP.  God  is  our  life  and  man  cannot  kill  life, 
God. 

14.  Thou  shall  nol  commil  adultery. 

SP.  EXP.  We  must  not  adulterate  the  Truth,  en- 
tertain evil  thoughts,  which  God  did  not  create. 

15.  Thou  shall  nol  steal. 

SP.  EXP.  When  this  so-called  mortal  man  knows 
he  is  God's  child  spiritually,  not  in  or  of  the  flesh, 
he  will  know  there  is  nothing  to  steal  as  God  is  All 
in  All. 

16.  Thou  shall  nol  bear  false  wilness  againsl  ihy 
neighbor. 

SP.  EXP.  The  spiritual  man  of  God  cannot  sin, 
neither  can  he  bear  false  witness  against  his  neigh- 
bor, so  we  must  see  our  neighbor  as  spiritual  and  not 
material. 

17.  Thou  shall  nol  covel  ihy  neighbour's  house, 
ihou  shall  nol  covel  ihy  neighbour's  wife,  nor  his 
manservanl,  nor  his  maidservanl,  nor  his  ox,  nor  his 
ass,  nor  anylhing  lhal  is  ihy  neighbour's. 

SP.  EXP.  As  God9s  man  is  spiritual  he  cannot 
covet — Paul  says:  "They  which  are  the  children  of 
the  flesh  are  not  the  children  of  God?';  therefore 
there  is  nothing  to  covet. 


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THE  BEATITUDES. 

1.  And  seeing  the  multitudes,  he  went  up  into  a 
mountain;  and  when  he  was  set,  his  disciples  came 
unto  him: 

And  he  opened  his  mouth,  and  taught  them  saying, 
Blessed  are  the  poor  in  spirit;  for  their's  is  the 
kingdom  of  heaven. 

SP.  EXP.  As  a  man  thinketh  in  his  heart,  so  is  he. 
Arise  then,  and  think  with  God.  For  those  who 
earnestly  desire  this  spiritual  understanding  and  are 
willing  to  obey  the  commands  of  Truth,  will  find  the 
kingdom  of  heaven  within  them. 

Blessed  are  they  that  mourn;  for  they  shall  he  com- 
forted. 

SP.  EXP.  Blessed  are  they  who  earnestly  desire 
the  Truth.  "Seek  and  ye  shall  find,  knock  and  it 
shall  be  opened  unto  you." 

Blessed  are  the  meek;  for  they  shall  inherit  the 
earth. 

SP.  EXP.  Blessed  are  they  who  are  obedient  to 
the  laws  of  Divine  love;  for  through  their  meekness, 
they  shall  inherit  the  kingdom  of  God. 

Blessed  are  they  which  do  hunger  and  thirst  after 
righteousness;  for  they  shall  be  filled. 

SP.  EXP.  By  faith  in  God  based  upon  the  under- 
standing and  realization  of  His  Infinite  love,  our  hun- 
ger and  thirst  will  be  gratified  to  the  utmost. 

Blessed  are  the  merciful;  for  they  shall  obtain 
mercy. 

SP.  EXP.  Blessed  are  they  who  know  good  only9 
for  God  is  good. 

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Blessed  are  the  pure  in  heart;  for  they  shall  see 
God. 

SP.  EXP.  We  must  be  pure  in  thought  to  see  God 
in  His  purity.  Do  we  find  the  thoughts  of  the  mortal 
man  pure?  No.  Then  the  mortal  thoughts  must  be 
corrected. 

Blessed  are  the  peacemakers;  for  they  shall  be 
called  the  children  of  God. 

SP.  EXP.  Blessed  are  they  who  are  so  pure  in 
thought  they  impart  it  to  others — then  we  are  peace- 
makers. 

Blessed  are  they  which  are  persecuted  for  right- 
eousness' sake;  for  their's  is  the  kingdom  of  heaven. 

Blessed  are  ye,  when  men  shall  revile  you,  and 
persecute  you,  and  shall  say  all  manner  of  evil 
against  you  falsely  for  my  sake. 

Rejoice,  and  be  exceeding  glad;  for  great  is  your 
reward  in  heaven:  for  so  persecuted  they  the 
prophets  which  were  before  you. 

Ye  are  the  salt  of  the  earth:  but  if  the  salt  have 
lost  his  savour,  wherewith  shall  it  be  salted?  It  is 
thenceforth  good  for  nothing,  but  to  be  cast  out,  and 
to  be  trodden  under  foot  of  men. 

Ye  are  the  light  of  the  world.  A  city  that  is  set 
on  an  hill  cannot  be  hid. 

SP.  EXP.  Read  the  11,  12-13-14  verses  of  the  5th 
chapter  of  Matthew. 


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HEALING  ACCORDING  TO  CHRIST 
JESUS'  TEACHINGS. 

Gen.  1. 

In  the  beginning  God  created  the  heaven  and  the 
earth.  God's  creation  is  spiritual  and  not  material. 
God's  spiritual  creation  is  found  complete  in  the  first 
chapter  of  Genesis,  including  the  first  three  verses  of 
the  second  chapter.  While  there  seems  to  be  a 
second  creation,  it  cannot  be  a  truth  if  God's  creation 
is  finished  in  the  first  chapter.  Which  are  we  to  ac- 
cept as  Truth,  the  primary  or  secondary?  Can  both 
be  true  when  there  is  but  one  God  or  creative  power? 
The  second  chapter  of  Genesis  God  created  man  male 
and  female  in  His  own  image  and  likeness.  God  be- 
ing Spirit  or  Mind,  man  must  be  spiritual,  and  the 
spiritual  man  is  the  reflection  of  God.  How  can  the 
so  called  mortal  man  be  the  reflection  of  God,  believ- 
ing he  has  the  elements  of  death  in  him,  when  God 
and  God's  idea  express  eternity?  Death  being  the 
extinction  of  life. 

Acts  4:8—10  to  22nd. 

Then  Peter,  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghost,  said  unto 
them,  Ye  rulers  of  the  people,  and  elders  of  Irsael, 

If  we  this  day  be  examined  of  the  good  deed  done 
to  the  impotent  man,  by  what  means  he  is  made 
whole ; 

Be  it  known  unto  you  all  and  to  all  the  people  of 
Israel,  that  by  the  name  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Nazareth, 
whom  ye  crucified,  whom  God  raised  from  the  dead, 
even  by  him  doth  this  man  stand  here  before  you 
whole. 

This  is  the  stone  which  was  set  at  nought  of  your 
builders,  which  is  become  the  head  of  the  corner. 

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Neither  is  there  salvation  in  any  other;  for  there 
is  none  other  name  under  heaven  given  among  men, 
whereby  we  must  be  saved. 

Now  when  they  saw  the  boldness  of  Peter  and 
John,  and  perceived  that  they  were  unlearned  and 
ignorant  men,  they  marveled;  and  they  took  knowl- 
edge of  them,  that  they  had  been  with  Jesus. 

And  beholding  the  man  which  was  healed  standing 
with  them,  they  could  say  nothing  against  it. 

But  when  they  had  commanded  them  to  go  aside 
out  of  the  council,  they  conferred  among  themselves, 

Saying,  What  shall  we  do  to  these  men?  for  that 
indeed  a  notable  miracle  hath  been  done  by  them  is 
manifest  to  all  them  that  dwell  in  Jerusalem;  and 
we  cannot  deny  it. 

But  that  it  spread  no  further  among  the  people, 
let  us  straitly  threaten  them,  that  they  speak  hence- 
forth to  no  man  in  this  name. 

And  they  called  them  and  commanded  them  not 
to  speak  at  all  nor  teach  in  the  name  of  Jesus. 

But  Peter  and  John  answered  and  said  unto  them, 
Whether  it  be  right  in  the  sight  of  God  to  hearken 
unto  you  more  than  unto  God,  judge  ye. 

For  we  cannot  but  speak  the  things  which  we  have 
seen  and  heard. 

So  when  they  had  further  threatened  them,  they 
let  them  go,  finding  nothing  how  they  might  punish 
them,  because  of  the  people;  for  all  men  glorified 
God  for  that  which  was  done. 

For  the  man  was  above  forty  years  old  on  whom 
this  miracle  of  healing  was  shewed. 

ACTS  5,  12-16. 

And  by  the  hands  of  the  apostles  were  many  signs 
and  wonders  wrought  among  the  people;  (and  they 
were  all  with  one  accord  in  Solomon's  porch. 

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And  of  the  rest  durst  no  man  join  himself  to  them; 
but  the  people  magnified  them. 

And  believers  were  the  more  added  to  the  Lord, 
multitudes  both  of  men  and  women). 

Insomuch  that  they  brought  forth  the  sick  into  the 
streets,  and  laid  them  on  beds  and  couches,  that  at 
the  least  the  shadow  of  Peter  passing  by  might  over- 
shadow some  of  them. 

There  came  also  a  multitude  out  of  the  cities  round 
about  unto  Jerusalem,  bring  sick  folks,  and  them 
which  were  vexed  with  unclean  spirits :  and  they  were 
healed  every  one. 

ACTS  6,  8. 

And  Stephen  full  of  faith  and  power,  did  great 
wonders  and  miracles  among  the  people. 

ACTS  8,  7. 

For  unclean  spirits  crying  with  loud  voice,  came 
out  of  many  that  were  possessed  with  them,  and 
many  taken  with  palsies,  and  that  were  lame,  were 
healed. 

ACTS  9,  16  to  18. 

For  I  will  shew  him  how  great  things  he  must  suf- 
fer for  my  name's  sake. 

And  Ananias  went  his  way,  and  entered  into  the 
house,  and  putting  his  hands  on  him,  said,  Brother 
Saul,  the  Lord,  even  Jesus,  that  appeared  unto  thee 
in  the  way  as  thou  earnest,  hath  sent  me,  that  thou 
mightest  receive  thy  sight,  and  be  filled  with  the 
Holy  Ghost. 

And  immediately  there  fell  from  his  eyes  as  it  had 
been  scales;  and  he  received  sight  forthwith,  and 
arose  and  was  baptized. 

LUKE  8,  41-44. 

And  behold,  there  came  a  man  named  Jairus,  and 

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he  was  a  ruler  of  the  synagogue;  and  he  fell  down  at 
Jesus'  feet,  and  besought  him  that  he  would  come 
into  his  house; 

For  he  had  one  only  daughter,  about  twelve  years 
of  age,  and  she  lay  dying.  But  as  he  went  the 
people  thronged  him. 

And  a  woman  having  an  issue  of  blood  twelve 
years,  which  had  spent  all  her  living  upon  physicians, 
neither  could  be  healed  of  any,  came  behind  him  and 
touched  the  border  of  his  garment;  and  immediately 
her  issue  of  blood  staunched. 

LUKE  10,  1-4. 

After  these  things  the  Lord  appointed  other  sev- 
enty also,  and  sent  them  two  and  two  before  his  face 
into  every  city  and  place,  whither  he  himself  would 
come. 

Therefore  said  he  unto  them,  The  harvest  truly  is 
great,  but  the  labourers  are  few;  pray  ye  therefore 
the  Lord  of  the  harvest,  that  he  would  send  forth 
labourers  into  his  harvest. 

Go  your  ways;  behold  I  send  you  forth  as  lambs 
among  wolves, 

Carry  neither  purse,  nor  scrip,  nor  shoes;  and  sa- 
lute no  man  by  the  way. 

JOHN  14,  12. 

Verily,  verily,  I  say  unto  you,  He  that  believeth  on 
me,  the  works  that  I  do  shall  he  do  also;  and  greater 
works  than  these  shall  he  do;  because  I  go  unto  my 
Father. 

JOHN  15,  1-23.    (Look  up  and  read.) 

ACTS  3,  1-12. 

1.  Now  Peter  and  John  went  up  together  into  the 
temple  at  the  hour  of  prayer,  being  the  ninth  hour. 

2.  And  a  certain  man,  lame    from    his    mother's 

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womb,  was  carried,  whom  they  laid  daily  at  the  gate 
of  the  temple  which  is  called  Beautiful,  to  ask  alms 
of  them  that  entered  into. 

3.  And  he  took  him  by  the  right  hand,  and  lifted 
him  up;  and  immediately  his  feet  and  ankle  bones 
received  strength. 

8.  And  he  leaping  up,  stood,  and  walked,  and  en- 
tered with  them  into  the  temple,  walking,  and  leap- 
ing, and  praising  God. 

9.  And  all  the  people  saw  him  walking  and  prais- 
ing God; 

10.  And  they  knew  that  it  was  he  which  sat  for 
alms  at  the  Beautiful  gate  of  the  temple;   and  they 
were  filled  with  wonder  and  amazement  at  that  which 
had  happened  unto  him. 

11.  And,  as  the  lame  man  which  was  healed  held 
Peter   and   John,   all   the   people   ran   together  unto 
them,  in  the  porch  that  is  called  Solomon's,  greatly 
wondering. 

12.  And  when  Peter  saw  it,  he  answered  unto  the 
people,  Ye  men  of  Israel,  why  marvel  ye  at  this?  or 
why  look  ye  so  earnestly  on  us,  as  though  by  our  own 
power  or  holiness,  we  had  made  this  man  to  walk? 

MATTHEW  9. 

1.  And  he  entered  into  a  ship,  and  passed  over, 
and  came  into  his  own  city. 

2.  And,  behold,  they  brought  to  him  a  man  sick 
of  the  palsy,  lying  on  a  bed;  and  Jesus  seeing  their 
faith,  said  unto  the  sick  of  the  palsy,  Son,  be  of  good 
cheer;  thy  sins  be  forgiven  thee. 

3.  And,  behold,  certain  of  the  scribes  said  within 
themselves,  This  man  blasphemeth. 

4.  And  Jesus  knowing  their  thoughts,  said,  Where- 
fore think  ye  evil  in  your  hearts? 

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5.  For  whether  is  it  easier,  to  say,  Thy  sins  be  for- 
given thee;  or  to  say,  Arise,  and  walk? 

6.  But  that  ye  may  know  that  the  Son  of  man 
hath  power  on  earth  to  forgive  sins,  (then  saith  he  to 
the  sick  of  the  palsy,)  Arise,  take  up  thy  bed,  and  go 
unto  thine  house. 

7.  And  he  arose,  and  departed  to  his  house. 

8.  But  when  the  multitude  saw  it,  they  marvelled, 
and  glorified  God,  which  had  given  such  power  unto 
men. 

9.  And  as  Jesus  passed  forth  from  thence,  he  saw 
a  man,  named  Matthew,  sitting  at  the  receipt  of  cus- 
tom;  and  he  saith  unto  him,  Follow  me.     And  he 
arose,  and  followed  him. 

10.  And  it  came  to  pass,  as  Jesus  sat  at  meat  in 
the  house,  behold,  many  publicans,  and  sinners  came 
and  sat  down  with  him  and  his  disciples. 

11.  And  when  the  Pharisees  saw  it,  they  said  unto 
his  disciples,  Why  eateth  your  Master  with  publicans 
and  sinners? 

12.  But  when  Jesus  heard  that,  he  said  unto  them, 
They  that  be  whole  need  not  a  physician,  but  they 
that  are  sick. 

13.  But  go  ye  and  learn  what  that  meaneth,  I  will 
have  mercy,  and  not  sacrifice;  for  I  am  not  come  to 
call  the  righteous,  but  sinners  to  repentance. 

14.  Then  came  to  him  the  disciples  of  John,  say- 
ing, Why  do  we  and  the  Pharisees  fast  oft,  but  thy 
disciples  fast  not? 

15.  And  Jesus  said  unto  them,  Can  the  children 
of  the  Bridechamber  mourn,  as  long  as  the  bride- 
groom is  with  them?  but  the  days  will  come,  when 
the  bridegroom  shall  be  taken  from  them,  and  then 
shall  they  fast. 

16.  No  man  putteth  a  new  piece  of  cloth  into  an 

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old  garment;  for  that  which  is  put  in  to  fill  up  taketh 
from  the  garment,  and  the  rent  is  made  worse. 

17.  Neither  do  men  put  new  wine  into  old  bottles, 
else  the  bottles  break,  and  the  wine  runneth  out,  and 
the  bottles  perish;  but  they  put  new  wine  into  new 
bottles,  and  both  are  preserved. 

18.  While  he  spake  these  things  unto  them,  be- 
hold,  there   came   a   certain   ruler,   and   worshipped 
him,  saying,  My  daughter    is    even    now    dead;    but 
come  and  lay  thy  hand  upon  her,  and  she  shall  live. 

19.  And  Jesus  arose,   and  followed  him,   and  so 
did  his  disciples. 

20.  And,  behold,  a  woman,  which  was   diseased 
with  an  issue  of  blood  twelve  years,  came  behind  him 
and  touched  the  hem  of  his  garment; 

21.  For  she  said  within    herself,    If    I    may    but 
touch  his  garment,  I  shall  be  whole. 

22.  But  Jesus  turned  him  about;  and  when  he  saw 
her,  he  said,  Daughter,  be  of  good  comfort;  thy  faith 
hath  made  thee  whole.     And  the  woman  was  made 
whole  from  that  hour. 

23.  And  when  Jesus  came  into  the  Ruler's  house, 
and  saw  the  minstrels  and  the  people  making  a  noise, 

24.  He  said  unto  them,  Give  place;  for  the  maid 
is  not  dead,  but  sleepeth.     And  they  laughed  him  to 
scorn. 

25.  But  when  the  people  were  put  forth,  he  went 
in,  and  took  her  by  the  hand,  and  the  maid  arose. 

26.  And  the  fame  thereof  went  abroad  into  all 
that  land. 

27.  And  when  Jesus  departed  thence,  two  blind 
men  followed  him,  crying  and  saying,  Thou  son  of 
David,  have  mercy  on  us. 

28.  And  when  he  was  come  into  the  house,  the 
blind  men  came  to  him;  and  Jesus  saith  unto  them, 

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Believe  ye  that  I  am  able  to  do  this?     They  said  unto 
him,  Yea,  Lord. 

29.  Then  touched  he  their  eyes,  saying,  Accord- 
ing to  your  faith  be  it  unto  you. 

30.  And  their  eyes  were  opened;  and  Jesus  straitly 
charged  them,  saying,  See  that  no  man  know  it. 

31.  But  they,  when  they  were   departed,  spread 
abroad  his  fame  in  all  that  country. 

32.  As  they  went  out,  behold,  they  brought  to  him 
a  dumb  man  possessed  with  a  devil. 

33.  And  when  the  devil  was  cast  out,  the  dumb 
spake:  and  the  multitudes  marvelled,  saying,  It  was 
never  so  seen  in  Israel. 

34.  But  the  Pharisees  said,  He  casteth  out  devils 
through  the  prince  of  the  devils. 

35.  And  Jesus  went  about  all  the  cities,  and  vil- 
lages, teaching  in  their  synagogues,  and  preaching  the 
gospel  of  the  kingdom,  and  healing  every  sickness  and 
every  disease  among  the  people. 

36.  But  when    he    saw    the    multitudes,    he    was 
moved    with    compassion    on    them,    because    they 
fainted,  and  were  scattered  abroad,  as  sheep  having 
no  shepherd. 

37.  Then  saith  He  unto  His  disciples,  The  harvest 
truly  is  plenteous,  but  the  labourers  are  few. 

38.  Pray  ye  therefore   the   Lord   of  the   harvest, 
that  he  will  send  forth  labourers  into  his  harvest. 

MATTHEW  10. 

1.  And  when  he  had  called  unto  him  his  twelve 
disciples,  he  gave  them  power  against  unclean  spirits, 
to  cast  them  out,  and  to  heal  all  manner  of  sickness 
and  all  manner  of  disease. 

2.  Now  the  names  of  the  twelve  apostles  are  these : 
the  first,  Simon  who  is  called  Peter,  and  Andrew  his 
brother;   James,  the  son  of  Zebedee,  and  John  his 
brother; 

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3.  Philip,  and  Bartholomew;   Thomas,  and  Mat- 
thew the  publican;  James,  the  son  of  Alphaeus,  and 
Lebbaeus,  whose  surname  was  Thaddaeus; 

4.  Simon  the  Cannanite.  and  Judas  Iscariot,  who 
also  betrayed  him. 

5.  These  twelve  Jesus  sent  forth,  and  commanded 
them,  saying,  Go  not  into  the  way  of  the  Gentiles, 
and  into  any  city  of  the  Samaritans  enter  ye  not; 

6.  But  go  rather  to  the  lost  sheep  of  the  house  of 
Israel. 

7.  And,  as  ye  go,  preach,  saying,  The  Kingdom  of 
heaven  is  at  hand. 

8.  Heal  the  sick  ,cleanse  the  lepers,  raise  the  dead, 
cast  out  devils;  freely  ye  have  received,  freely  give. 

9.  Provide  neither  gold,  nor  silver,  nor  brass,  in 
your  purses; 

10.  Nor  scrip  for  your  journey,  neither  two  coats, 
neither  shoes;   nor  yet  staves;   for  the  workman  is 
worthy  of  his  meat. 

11.  And  into  whatsoever  city    or    town    ye    shall 
enter,  inquire  who  in  it  is  worthy;  and  there  abide 
till  ye  go  thence. 

12.  When  ye  come  into  an  house,  salute  it. 

13.  And  if  the  house  be  worthy,  let  your  peace 
come  upon  it. 


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UNDERSTANDING. 

To  understand  God  is  to  know  God  is  All  in  All, 
and  the  creator  of  the  spiritual  man,  not  the  man 
of  the  flesh,  as  the  scripture  declares  the  man  of  the 
flesh  is  not  God's  child.  Now  read  the  following 
scriptural  references  in  connection  with  the  Bible: 
Proverbs  Chapter  3: 

1.  My  son,  forget  not  my  law;  but  let  thine  heart 
keep  my  commandments: 

2.  For  length  of  days,  and  long  life,  and  peace, 
shall  they  add  to  thee. 

3.  Let  not  mercy   and  truth  forsake  thee;   bind 
them  about  thy  neck;  write  them  upon  the  table  of 
thine  heart; 

4.  So  shalt  thou  find  favour  and  good  understand- 
ing in  the  sight  of  God  and  man. 

5.  Trust  in  the  Lord  with  all  thine  heart;    and 
lean  not  unto  thine  own  understanding. 

6.  In  all  thy  ways  acknowledge  him,  and  he  shall 
direct  thy  paths. 

7.  Be  not  wise  in  thine  own  eyes;  fear  the  Lord, 
and  depart  from  evil. 

8.  It  shall  be  health  to  thy  navel,  and  marrow  to 
thy  bones. 

9.  HONOR  the   LORD  with  thy  substance,   and 
with  the  firstfruits  of  all  thine  increase; 

10.  So  shall  thy  barns  be  filled  with  plenty,  and 
thy  presses  shall  burst  out  with  new  wine. 

11.  My  son,  despise    not    the    chastening    of    the 
Lord;  neither  be  weary  of  his  correction; 

12.  For  whom  the  Lord  loveth  he  correcteth,  even 
as  a  father  the  son  in  whom  he  delighteth. 

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13.     Happy  is  the  man  that  findeth  wisdom,  and 
the  man  that  getteth  understanding. 

147    For  the  merchandise  of  it  is  better  than  the 
merchandise  of  silver,  and  the  gain  thereof  than  fine 
•  gold.  " 

-15.  She  is  more  precious  than  rubies;  and  all  the 
.things  thou  canst  desire  are  not  to  be  compared  unto 
her. 

16.  Length  of  days  is  in  her  right  hand;  and  in 
her  left  hand  riches  and  honour. 

17.  Her  ways  are  ways  of  pleasantness,  and  all  her 
paths  are  peace. 

18.  She  is  a  tree  of  life  to  them  that  lay  hold  upon 
her;  and  happy  is  every  one  that  retaineth  her. 

19.  The  Lord  by  wisdom  hath  founded  the  earth; 
by  understanding  hath  he  established  the  heavens. 

20.  By  his  knowledge  the  depths  are  broken  up, 
and  the  clouds  drop  down  the  dew. 

PROVERBS— CHAPTER  4: 

1.  Hear,  ye  children,  the  instructions  of  a  father, 
and  attend  to  know  understanding. 

2.  For  I  give  you  good  doctrine,  forsake  ye  not  my 
law. 

3.  For  I  was  my  father's  son,  tender  and  only  be- 
loved in  the  sight  of  my  mother. 

5.  Get  wisdom,  get  understanding;  forget  it  not; 
neither  decline  from  the  words  of  my  mouth. 

6.  Forsake  her  not,  and  she  shall  preserve  thee; 
love  her,  and  she  shall  keep  thee. 

7.  Wisdom  is  the  principal  thing;  therefore  get 
wisdom;  and  with  all  thy  getting  get  understanding. 

8.  Exalt  her,  and  she  shall  promote  thee ;  she  shall 
bring  thee  to  honour,  when  thou  dost  embrace  her. 

9.  She  shall  give  to  thine  head  an  ornament  of 
grace;  a  crown  of  glory  shall  she  deliver  to  thee. 

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10.  Hear,  0  my  son,  and  receive  my  sayings;  and 
the  years  of  thy  life  shall  be  many. 

11.  I  have  taught  thee  in  the  way  of  wisdom;  I 
have  led  thee  in  right  paths. 

12.  When    thou    goest,    thy    steps    shall    not    be 
straitened,  and  when  thou  runnest,  thou  shall  not 
stumble. 

13.  Take  fast  hold  of  instruction;  let  her  not  go; 
keep  her,  for  she  is  thy  life. 

14.  Enter  not  into  the  path  of  the  wicked,  and  go 
not  in  the  way  of  evil  men. 

15.  Avoid  it,  pass  not  by  it,  turn  from  it,  and  pass 
away. 

16.  For  they  sleep  not,  except    they    have    done 
mischief;  and  their  sleep  is  taken  away,  unless  they 
cause  some  to  fall. 

17.  For  they  eat  the    bread    of    wickedness,    and 
drink  the  wine  of  violence. 

18.  But  the  path  of  the  just  is  as  the  shining  light, 
that  shineth  more  and  more  unto  the  perfect  day. 

19.  The  way  of  the  wicked  is  as  darkness;  they 
know  not  at  what  they  stumble. 

20.  My  son,  attend  to  my  word;  incline  thine  ear 
unto  my  sayings; 

21.  Let  them  not  depart  from  thine  eyes;   keep 
them  in  the  midst  of  thine  heart; 

22.  For  they  are  life  unto  those  that  find  them, 
and  health  to  all  their  flesh. 

23.  Keep  thy  heart  with  all  diligence;  for  out  of  it 
are  the  issues  of  life. 

24.  Put  away  from  thee  a  froward  mouth,  and 
perverse  lips  put  far  from  thee. 

25.  Let  thine  eyes  look  right  on,  and  let  thine  eye- 
lids look  straight  before  thee. 

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26.  Ponder  the  path  of  thy  feet,  and  let  all  thy 
ways  be  established. 

27.  Turn  not  to  the  right  hand  nor  to  the  left; 
remove  thy  foot  from  evil. 

PROV.  1st. 

2.  To  know  wisdom  and  understand  instruction; 
to  perceive  the  words  of  understanding. 

3.  To  receive  the  instruction  of  wisdom,  justice, 
and  judgment  and  equity. 

4.  To  give  subtility  to  the  simple,  to  the  young 
man  knowledge  and  discretion. 

5.  A  wise  man  will  hear,  and  will  increase  learn- 
ing;  and  a  man  of  understanding  shall  attain  unto 
wise  counsels; 

6.  To  understand  a  proverb,  and  the  interpreta- 
tion; the  words  of  the  wise,  and  their  dark  sayings. 

33.  But  whoso  harkeneth  unto  me  shall  dwell 
safely,  and  shall  be  quiet  from  fear  of  evil. 

SP.  EXP.  Death  is  but  a  belief,  true  to  the  mortal 
so  called  man,  untrue  to  God.  God  is  our  life  and  He 
is  eternal.  Eternity  cannot  end  in  death;  the  extinc- 
tion of  life;  so  God's  man  cannot  die.  God  never 
created  man  to  be  sick  or  die,  but  to  live.  Life  is 
eternal. 


GOD  IS  OUR  SUPPLY. 

DEUT.  28  1-4. 

And  it  shall  come  to  pass,  if  thou  shalt  harken  dili- 
gently unto  the  voice  of  the  Lord,  thy  God,  to  observe 
and  to  do  all  His  commandments  which  I  command 
thee  this  day,  that  the  Lord  thy  God  will  set  thee  on 
high  above  all  nations  of  the  earth; 

And  all  these  blessings  shall  come  on  thee,  and 
overtake  thee,  if  thou  shall  hearken  unto  the  voice 
of  the  Lord  thy  God. 

Blessed  shalt  thou  be  in  the  city  and  blessed  shalt 
thou  be  in  the  field. 

Blessed  shalt  be  the  fruit  of  thy  body,  and  the 
fruit  of  thy  ground,  and  the  fruit  of  thy  cattle,  the 
increase  of  thy  kine,  and  the  flocks  of  thy  sheep. 

Blessed  shall  be  thy  basket  and  thy  store. 

Blessed  shalt  thou  be  when  thou  comest  in,  and 
blessed  shalt  thou  be  when  thou  goest  out. 

The  Lord  shall  command  the  blessing  upon  thee  in 
thy  storehouses,  and  in  all  that  thou  settest  thine 
hand  unto;  and  he  shall  bless  thee  in  the  land  which 
the  Lord  thy  God  giveth  thee. 

The  Lord  shall  establish  thee  an  holy  people  unto 
himself,  as  he  hath  sworn  unto  thee,  if  thou  shalt 
keep  the  commandments  of  the  Lord  thy  God,  and 
walk  in  his  ways. 

And  all  people  of  the  earth  shall  see  that  thou 
art  called  by  the  name  of  the  Lord. 

And  the  Lord  shall  make  thee  plenteous  in  goods, 
in  the  fruit  of  thy  body,  and  in  the  fruit  of  thy 
cattle,  and  in  the  fruit  of  thy  ground,  in  the  land 
which  the  LORD  sware  unto  thy  fathers  to  give  thee. 

The  Lord  shall  open  unto  thee  his  good  treasure, 
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the  heaven  to  give  the  rain  unto  thy  land  in  his  sea- 
son, and  to  bless  all  the  work  of  thine  hand;  and 
thou  shalt  lend  unto  many  nations,  and  thou  shall 
not  borrow. 

And  the  Lord  shall  make  thee  the  head,  and  not 
the  tail;  and  thou  shalt  be  above  only,  and  thou  shalt 
not  be  beneath;  if  that  thou  hearken  unto  the  com- 
mandments of  the  Lord  thy  God,  which  I  command 
thee  this  day,  to  observe  and  to  do  them; 

And  thou  shalt  not  go  aside  from  any  of  the  words 
which  I  command  thee  this  day,  to  the  right  hand, 
or  to  the  left,  to  go  after  other  gods  to  serve  them. 


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NO  EVIL  TO  BE  FEARED  FOR  GOD 
IS  ALL. 

PSALM  18. 

48.  He  delivereth  me  from  mine  enemies;  yea, 
thou  1  if  test  me  up  above  those  that  rise  up  against 
me;  thou  hast  delivered  me  from  the  violent  man. 

PSALM  23. 

1.  The  Lord  is  my  shepherd;  I  shall  not  want. 

2.  He  maketh  me  to  lie  down  in  green  pastures; 
He  leadeth  me  beside  the  still  waters. 

3.  He  restoreth  my  soul  He  leadeth  me  in  the 
paths  of  righteousness  for  His  name's  sake. 

4.  Yea,  though  I  walk  through  the  valley  of  the 
shadow  of  death.  I  will  fear  no  evil;   for  thou  art 
with  me;  Thy  rod  and  Thy  staff  they  comfort  me. 

5.  Thou  prepares!  a  table  before  me  in  the  pres- 
ence of  mine  enemies ;  Thou  annointest  my  head  with 
oil;  my  cup  runneth  over. 

6.  Surely  goodness  and  mercy  shall  follow  me  all 
the  days  of  my  life;  and  I  will  dwell  in  the  house  of 
the  Lord  forever. 

PSALM  27. 

1.  The  Lord  is  my  light  and  my  salvation;  whom 
shall  I  fear?     The  Lord  is  the  strength  of  my  life;  of 
whom  shall  I  be  afraid? 

2.  When  the  wicked,  even  mine  enemies  and  my 
foes,  came  upon  me  to  eat  up  my  flesh,  they  stumbled 
and  fell. 

3.  Though  an  host  should  encamp  against  me,  my 
heart    shall    not    fear;     though    war    should    arise 
against  me  in  this  will  I  be  confident. 


4.  One  thing  have  I  desired  of  the  Lord,  that  will 
I  seek  after;  that  I  may  dwell  in  the  house  of  the 
Lord  all  the  days  of  my  life,  to  behold  the  beauty 
of  the  Lord,  and  to  inquire  in  his  temple. 

5.  For  in  the  time  of  trouble  He  shall  hide  me  in 
His  pavilion;  in  the  secret  of  His  tabernacle  shall  He 
hide  me;  He  shall  set  me  up  upon  a  rock. 

6.  And  now  shall  mine  head  be  lifted  up  above 
mine  enemies  round  about  me;  therefore  will  I  offer 
in  His  tabernacle  sacrifices  of  joy;  I  will  sing,  yea,  I 
will  sing  praises  unto  the  Lord. 

PSALM  37. 

39.  But  the  salvation  of  the  righteous  is  of  the 
Lord,  He  is  their  strength  in  the  time  of  trouble. 

40.  And  the  Lord  shall  help  them,  and  deliver 
them;  He  shall  deliver  them  from  the  wicked,  and 
save  them,  because  they  trust  in  Him. 


JUDGE  NOT. 

MATTHEW  7. 

1.  Judge  not,  that  ye  be  not  judged. 

2.  For  with  what  judgment  ye   shall   judge,  ye 
shall  be  judged;  and  with  what  measure  ye  mete,  it 
shall  be  measured  to  you  again. 

3.  And  why  beholdest  thou  the  mote  that  is  in 
thy  brother's  eye,  but  considerest  not  the  beam  that 
is  in  thine  own  eye? 

4.  Or  how  wilt  thou  say  to  thy  brother,  Let  me 
pull  out  the  mote  out  of  thine  eye,  and,  behold,  a 
beam  is  in  thine  own  eye? 

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LOVE. 

1  JOHN  4,  1  to  21. 

1.  Beloved,  believe  not  every  spirit,  but  try  the 
spirits  whether  they  are  of  God;  because  many  false 
prophets  are  gone  out  into  the  world. 

2.  Hereby  know  ye  the  Spirit  of  God;  Every  spirit 
that  confesseth  that  Jesus  Christ  is  come  in  the  flesh, 
is  of  God; 

3.  And  every  spirit  that  confesseth  not  that  Jesus 
Christ  is  come  in  the  flesh,  is  not  of  God;  and  this 
is  that  spirit  of  antichrist,  whereof  ye  have  heard  that 
it  should  come;  and  even  now  already  is  it  in  the 
world. 

4.  Ye  are  of  God,  little  children,  and  have  over- 
come them ;  because  greater  is  He  that  is  in  you,  than 
he  that  is  in  the  world. 

5.  They  are  of  the  world;  therefore  speak  they 
of  the  world,  and  the  world  heareth  them. 

6.  We  are  of  God:  he  that  kiioweth  God,  heareth 
us;  he  that  is  not  of  God,  heareth  not  us.     Hereby 
know  we  the  spirit  of  truth,  and  the  spirit  of  error. 

7.  Beloved,  let  us  love  one  another;  for  love  is  of 
God;  and  every  one  that  loveth,  is  born  of  God,  and 
knoweth  God. 

8.  He  that  loveth  not,  knoweth  not  God;  for  God 
is  love. 

9.  In  this  was  manifest  the  love  of  God  toward 
us,  because  that  God  sent  his  only  begotten  Son  into 
the  world,  that  we  might  live  through  him. 

10.  Herein  is  love,  not  that  we  loved  God,  but 
that  He  loved  us,  and  sent  his  Son  to  be  the  propitia- 
tion for  our  sins. 

11.  Beloved,  if  God  so  loved  us,  we  ought  also  to 
love  one  another. 

12.  No  man  hath  seen  God  at  any  time.     If  we 

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love  one  another,  God  dwelleth  in  us,  and  His  love 
is  perfected  in  us. 

13.  Hereby  know  we  that  we  dwell  in  Him,  and 
He  in  us,  because  he  hath  given  us  of  His  Spirit. 

14.  And  we  have  seen,  and  do  testify,  that  the 
Father  sent  the  Son  to  be  the  Saviour  of  the  world. 

15.  Whosoever  shall  confess  that  Jesus  is  the  Son 
of  God,  God  dwelleth  in  him,  and  he  in  God. 

16.  And  we  have  known   and  believed  the  love 
that  God  hath  to  us.     God  is  love;  and  he  that  dwell- 
eth in  love  dwelleth  in  God,  and  God  in  him. 

17.  Herein  is  our  love  made  perfect,  that  we  may 
have  boldness  in  the  day  of  judgment;  because  as  he 
is,  so  are  we  in  this  world. 

18.  There  is  no  fear  in  love;  but  perfect  love  cast- 
eth  out  fear;   because  fear  hath  torment.     He  that 
feareth,  is  not  made  perfect  in  love. 

19.  We  love  him,  because  he  first  loved  us. 

20.  If  a  man  say,  I    love    God,    and    hateth    his 
brother,  he  is  a  liar;  for    he    that    loveth    not    his 
brother  whom  he  hath  seen,  how  can  he  love  God 
whom  he  hath  not  seen? 

21.  And  this  commandment  have  we  from  him, 
That  he  who  loveth  God  love  his  brother  also. 
JOB  22. 

25.  Yea,  the  Almighty  shall  be  thy  defense,  and 
thou  shall  have  plenty. 

PSALM  22. 

26.  The  meek  shall  eat  and  be  satisfied. 

PSALM  34. 

1.  Fret  not  thyself  because  of  evil  doers,  neither 
be  thou  envious  against  the  workers  of  iniquity. 

2.  For  they  shall  soon  be  cut  down  like  the  grass, 
and  wither  as  the  green  herb. 

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3.  Trust  in  the  Lord,  and  do  good;  so  shall  thou 
dwell  in  the  land,  and  verily  thou  shall  be  fed. 

4.  Delight  thyself  in  ihe  Lord;  and  He  shall  give 
ihee  ihe  desires  of  ihine  hearl. 

5.  Commil  ihy  way  unlo  ihe  Lord;  trusl  also  in 
Him;  and  He  shall  bring  il  lo  pass. 

PSALM  1. 

1.  Blessed   is  ihe  man  lhal  walkelh  nol  in  ihe 
counsel  of  ihe  ungodly  nor  slandelh  in  ihe  way  of 
sinners,  nor  sillelh  in  ihe  seal  of  ihe  scornful: 

2.  Bui  his  delighl  is  in  ihe  law  of  ihe  Lord;  and 
in  His  law  dolh  he  medilale  day  and  nighl. 

3.  And  he  shall  be  like   a  Iree  planled  by  ihe 
rivers  of  waler,  lhal  bringelh  forlh  his  fruil  in  his 
season;   his  leaf  also  shall  nol  wilher;   and  whalso- 
ever  he  doelh  shall  prosper. 

4.  The  ungodly  are  nol  so;  bul  are  like  ihe  chaff 
which  ihe  wind  drivelh  away. 

5.  Therefore  ihe  ungodly  shall  nol  sland  in  ihe 
judgmenl,   nor   sinners   in   ihe   congregalion   of   ihe 
righleous. 

6.  For  ihe  Lord  knowelh  ihe  way  of  ihe  righl- 
eous; bul  ihe  way  of  ihe  ungodly  shall  perish. 
PSALM  91. 

1.  He  lhal  dwellelh  in  ihe  secrel  place  of  ihe  most 
High  shall  abide  under  ihe  shadow  of  ihe  Almighly. 

2.  I  will  say  of  ihe  Lord,  He  is  my  refuge,  and 
my  fortress;  my  God;  in  Him  will  I  Irusl. 

3.  Surely  He  shall  deliver  ihee  from  ihe  snare  of 
ihe  fowler,  and  from  ihe  noisome  peslilence. 

4.  He    shall   cover   ihee   wilh   His   fealhers,    and 
under  His  wings  shall  ihou  Irusl;  His  Irulh  shall  be 
ihy  shield  and  buckler. 

5.  Thou  shall  nol  be  afraid    for    ihe    lerror    by 
nighl,  nor  for  ihe  arrow  lhal  flielh  by  day; 

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6.  Nor  for  the  pestilence  that  walketh  in  dark- 
ness; nor  for  the  destruction  that  wasteth  at  noon- 
day. 

7.  A  thousand  shall  fall  at  thy  side,  and  ten  thou- 
sand at  thy  right  hand;  but  it  shall  not  come  nigh 
thee. 

8.  Only  with  thine  eyes  shalt  thou  hehold  and 
see  the  reward  of  the  wicked. 

9.  Because  thou  hast  made  the  Lord,  which  is  my 
refuge,  even  the  most  High,  thy  habitation; 

10.  There  shall  no  evil  befall  thee,  neither  shall 
any  plague  come  nigh  thy  dwelling. 

11.  For  he  shall  give  his  angels  charge  over  thee, 
to  keep  thee  in  all  thy  ways. 

12.  They  shall  bear  thee  up  in  their  hands,  lest 
thou  dash  thy  foot  against  a  stone. 

13.  Thou  shalt  tread  upon  the  lion  and  adder; 
the  young  lion  and  the  dragon  shalt  thou  trample 
under  feet. 

14.  Because  he  hath  set  his  love  upon  me,  there- 
fore will  I  deliver  him;  I  will  set  him  on  high,  be- 
cause he  hath  known  my  name. 

15.  He  shall  call  upon  me,  and  I  will  answer  him; 
I  will  be  with  him;  I  will  be  with  him  in  trouble;  I 
will  deliver  him,  and  honour  him. 

16.  With  long  life  will  I  satisfy  him,  and  shew 
him  my  salvation. 

PSALM  121. 

1.  I  will  lift  up  mine  eyes  unto  the  hills,  from 
whence  cometh  my  help. 

2.  My  help  cometh  from  the  Lord,  which  made 
heaven  and  earth. 

3.  He  will  not  suffer  thy  foot  to  be  moved;  He 
that  keepeth  thee  will  not  slumber. 

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4.  Behold,  he  that  keepeth  Israel  shall   neither 
slumber  nor  sleep. 

5.  The  Lord  is  thy  keeper;  the  Lord  is  thy  shade 
upon  thy  right  hand. 

6.  The  sun  shall  not  smite  thee  by  day,  nor  the 
moon  by  night. 

7.  The  Lord  shall  preserve  thee  from  all  evil;  He 
shall  preserve  thy  soul. 

8.  The  Lord  shall  preserve  thy  going  out  and  thy 
coming  in  from  this  time  forth,  and  even  for  ever- 
more. 

1  TIMO.  6  10  to  12. 

10.  For  the  love  of  money  is  the  root  of  all  evil; 
which   while   some   coveted    after,   they   have    erred 
from  the  faith,  and  pierced  themselves  through  with 
many  sorrows. 

11.  But  thou,  O  man  of  God,  flee  these  things; 
and  follow  after  righteousness,  godliness,  faith,  love, 
patience,  meekness. 

12.  Fight  the   good  fight  of  faith,  lay  hold  on 
eternal  life,  whereunto  thou  art  also  called,  and  hast 
professed  a  good  profession  before  many  witnesses. 

2  TIMO.  1-7. 

7.     For  God  hath  not  given  us  the  spirit  of  fear; 
but  of  power  and  of  love,  and  of  a  sound  mind. 


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THINK  GOOD,  NOT  EVIL. 

If  mankind  wants  to  learn  to  think  right,  never 
wrong,  study  to  know  good,  never  evil.  How  to  be 
happy,  never  melancholy.  How  to  he  healthy,  never 
unhealthy.  How  to  be  harmonious,  never  inharmo- 
nious. Study  the  great  Divine  Principle  of  life,  how 
to  live.  Divine  Principle  being  all,  man  has  no  other 
source  to  go  to  for  happiness  and  health,  and  he 
learns  that  as  God  is  the  only  creator,  and  created 
good  only,  that  evil,  the  opposite,  is  without  a  cre- 
ator, is  a  myth. 

The  true  child  of  God  never  did  a  wrong,  and  the 
so  called  fleshly  man  never  to  his  mortal  sense  enter- 
tained a  true  God  thought.  Thoughts  of  materiallity 
are  the  counterfeit  to  the  true  God  thinking. 

God  is  Spirit,  mind.  He  is  man's  intelligence. 
Man  reflects  forever,  spirit,  and  nothing  but  good  can 
be  reflected.  Evil,  error,  is  the  opposite  of  good. 
God  (good)  cannot  be  found  in  evil.  Health  and  all 
that  is  divinely  good  is  everywhere.  Good  and  evil 
cannot  commingle  any  more  than  water  and  oil.  Re- 
member the  Bible  statements  that  flesh  and  blood 
profiteth  nothing.  Why  does  man  worry  over  that 
which  profits  nothing?  Turn  about  and  absorb 
love;  that  which  creates  Heaven  within  us. 

When  will  mortal  man  awaken  to  the  understand- 
ing of  the  laws  of  God  and  learn  to  be  .obedient  to 
the  law  of  right?  This  law  of  right  is  God's  law; 
knows  no  wrong,  thinks  no  wrong,  does  no  wrong. 

The  fleshly  man  is  doubleminded,  knows  good  and 
evil;  but  his  good  is  not  of  God,  not  eternal.  When 
will  he  learn  to  bridle  his  unruly  tongue,  fault  find- 
ing, and  seeing  evil  in  his  brother?  We  must  get  the 
beam  out  of  our  own  eye  before  we  can  see  the  mole 


in  our  brother's  eye.  Learn  to  mind  our  own  busi- 
ness and  cleanse  our  own  thoughts  of  evil.  When  we 
see  evil  in  another,  it  originated  in  our  own  bad 
thinking.  Let  us  clean  out  our  own  house. 


STRAINED  NERVES— OVERWORK. 

There  is  no  such  thing  as  strained  nerves;  over- 
work. It  is  a  false  mental  concept  that  suggests  these 
evils.  God  never  created  His  children  to  suffer  from 
overwork,  nerve  exhaustion,  debility,  fear  or  any  of 
these  falsely  declared  diseases  mankind  seems  to  suf- 
fer. God's  creation  is  perfect  and  His  word  says  we 
cannot  add  to  or  take  from  what  He  has  created. 
Mankind  has  to  study  to  know  the  truth  about  him- 
self, and  God;  not  the  errors  or  so  called  evils.  It 
is  understanding  the  truth  that  frees  man  from  all 
false  beliefs  in  sin,  sickness  and  death. 

Man  is  God's  likeness  when  he  holds  to  happy,  har- 
monious, good  thoughts.  When  he  holds  to  imper- 
fect, painful,  inharmonious  thoughts  he  is  unlike 
God.  Mortal  mind  is  His  opposite,  counterfeit  to  be 
destroyed  by  the  higher  Spiritual  thinking. 

Mankind  cannot  load  himself  down  with  all  the 
sick  beliefs  of  the  day  and  expect  God  to  father  them. 
God's  child  reflects  his  every  thought  from  the 
Father,  no  guile  in  them. 

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EVIL. 

Evil  is  the  direct  result  of  a  belief  in  a  power 
apart  from  God.  God  is  declared  to  be  all  power, 
the  only  power.  Evil  is  real  to  mortality,  but  unreal 
to  God.  (Truth.)  Sickness  is  real  to  the  mortal 
senses,  but  unreal  to  God.  God  is  the  reality  and  He 
is  all  Good,  man  His  image  and  likeness. 

If  mankind  believes  in  the  Bible,  he  must  disbe- 
lieve in  evil,  sin,  sickness  and  death,  for  the  Bible 
teaches  that  God  created  all  that  exists,  and  created 
it  Good,  yea,  very  good.  Error  is  not  good,  so  cannot 
be  any  part  of  God's  creation.  The  Word  says  God 
is  of  too  pure  eyes  to  behold  evil.  If  He  created  it, 
it  is  seeable;  He  could  see  it.  God's  creation  is  eter- 
nal. 

God's  man  has  a  harmonious  body.  The  man  of 
the  flesh  seems  to  often  entertain  inharmony.  As 
God  is  all  in  all  whence  comes  inharmony?  It  has 
no  true  existence.  It  is  a  false  belief.  Cold  cannot 
exist  in  space  filled  with  warmth.  No  inharmony 
can  exist  where  Love  is.  God  is  LOVE.  God  is 
everywhere.  No  space  where  He  is  not  No  room 
for  evil. 

Entertain  love  not  hate.  Hold  good  thoughts,  not 
their  opposite.  Hold  good  healthy  loving  thoughts 
over  all  the  organs  of  the  body,  and  banish  all 
thoughts  of  disease  and  death.  God  is  our  life.  He 
is  perfect.  Hold  to  this  and  you  reflect  harmony. 
Let  mankind  refuse  to  entertain  any  thoughts  but 
good,  Love.  So  all  evil  like  hate,  sin,  poverty  will 
fly  out  the  window,  and  go  to  its  native  nothingness. 
What  will  remain?  Health,  plenty,  love,  joy. 

Let  mankind  drink  from  the  fountain  of  Love,  All 
inharmony  will  disappear.  God  is  Love  and  har- 

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mony  and  nothing  else  can  exist  where  Love  is. 

That  which  God  created  perfect  is  eternally  so.  No 
power  is  greater  than  God's,  and  there  can  exist  no 
imperfection  in  God's  man.  (Fix  this  in  your 
thought  and  ponder.) 


GOD  OUR  LIFE. 

For  this  commandment  which  I  command  thee  this 
day  is  not  hidden  from  thee,  neither  is  it  far  off. 
Dent  30-11-20. 

That  thou  mayest  love  the  Lord,  thy  God,  and  that 
thou  mayest  obey  HIS  voice  and  that  thou  mayest 
cleave  unto  Him,  for  He  is  thy  life  and  the  length  of 
thy  days. 

SP.  EXP.  What  mankind  becomes  possessor  of  is 
what  he  seeks,  and  makes  his  own.  Seek  the  truth 
and  make  it  ours.  Mankind  more  often  seems  to 
seek  the  evil  and  make  it  his.  Turn  from  evil  to  the 
Truth  and  evil  will  flee  from  thee.  A  soft  answer 
turneth  away  wrath.  In  love  there  is  no  wrath. 

The  spirit  of  God  hath  made  me,  and  the  breath 
of  the  almighty  hath  given  me  life.  Job  33-4. 

SP.  EXP.  Spirit,  God  is  our  Father;  our  life;  not 
the  father  of  the  fleshly  man.  But  if  permitted  he 
will  control  this  carnal  mind  for  good.  Then  we 
cannot  think  evil. 

Thou  wilt  show  me  the  path  of  life,  in  Thy  pres- 
ence is  fullness  of  joy.  At  thy  right  hand,  there  are 
pleasures  forever  more.  Ps.  16-11. 

For  with  thee  is  the  fountain  of  life.  Ps.  66  8-9, 
which  holdeth  our  soul  in  life,  and  suffereth  not  our 
feet  to  be  moved. 

As  righteousness  tendeth  to  life,  so  he  that  pursu- 
eth  evil  pursueth  it  to  his  own  death.  Prov.  11-19. 

SP.  EXP.  When  man  entertains  sick,  evil,  harm- 
ful thoughts,  he  is  entertaining  an  enemy  that  leads 
him  on  to  death. 

In  the  way  of  righteousness  is  life  and  in  the  path- 
way thereof  there  is  no  death.  Prov.  12-28. 

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SP.  EXP.  Hold  to  the  Truth.  God  is  our  life  and 
is  eternal.  No  death. 

The  law  of  the  wise  is  a  fountain  of  life,  to  depart 
from  the  snares  of  death.  Prov.  13,  14. 

The  fear  of  the  Lord  is  a  fountain  of  life,  to  depart 
from  the  snares  of  death.  Prov.  14,  27. 

Understanding  is  a  well  spring  of  life,  unto  him 
that  hath  it.  Prov.  16-22. 

SP.  EXP.  Man  is  admonished  to  get  wisdom,  to 
get  understanding.  When  man  follows  after  right- 
eousness he  finds  life. 

He  that  followeth  after  righteousness  and  mercy 
findeth  life.  Prov.  21-21. 

SP.  EXP.  To  obtain  righteousness  and  mercy  be 
obedient  to  the  Christ  commands.  Never  entertain 
evil  thoughts;  Purity  of  thought  is  elevating. 

O  Lord,  by  these  things  men  live,  and  in  all  things 
is  the  life  of  my  spirit.  So  wilt  thou  recover  me,  and 
make  me  to  live.  Isa.  38-16. 

He  will  swallow  up  death  in  victory.     Isa.  25-8. 

SP.  EXP.  Death  is  error;  life  is  truth.  Truth, 
obeyed,  destroys  all  error.  Be  obedient  to  the  com- 
mands of  the  Principle  Life. 

In  him  was  life,  and  the  life  was  the  light  of  men. 
John  4-14. 

But  whosoever  drinketh  of  the  water  that  I  shall 
give  him  shall  never  thirst,  but  the  water  that  I  shall 
give  him  shall  be  in  him  a  well  of  water  springing  up 
into  everlasting  life.  John  4-14. 

SP.  EXP.  All  who  entertain  the  pure  thoughts  of 
good  shall  never  want.  PURITY  of  thought  pro- 
duces health,  harmony,  joy,  and  the  peace  that  pass- 
eth  all  understanding. 

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He  that  heareth  my  words,  and  believeth  on  him 
that  sent  me,  hath  everlasting  life,  and  shall  not  come 
into  condemnation,  hut  is  passed  from  death  unto 
life.  John  5-24. 

SP.  EXP.  Man  must  believe;  Have  no  doubts. 
Must  believe  in  God,  and  in  Jesus  Christ  as  the 
savior,  or  mediator  between  God  and  matured  man. 
Man  earnestly  believing,  will  put  it  into  practice,  and 
will  receive  blessings  in  return.  What  constitute  our 
blessings?  Naught  but  happiness,  peace,  joy,  health, 
heaven  within  us.  Our  consciousness. 

For  as  the  Father  hath  life  in  Himself,  so  hath  He 
given  to  the  son  to  have  life  in  himself.  John  5-26. 

For  the  bread  of  God  is  he  which  cometh  down 
from  heaven  and  giveth  life  unto  the  world.  John 
6,  33. 

SP.  EXP.  The  God,  or  Christ  inspiring  thought 
which  controlled  the  man  Jesus,  will  control  us;  if 
like  Jesus  we  are  a  willing  receptable  for  Truth. 
Jesus  said;  Follow  me.  Obedience  to  truth  is  exacted 
of  mankind. 

Verily,  verily,  I  say  unto  you,  he  that  believeth  on 
me  hath  everlasting  life.  John  6-47. 

SP.  EXP.  /  do  believe,  help  thou  my  unbelief. 
Blot  out  my  transgressions,  O  Lord. 

I  am  the  bread  of  life.     John  6-48. 

This  is  the  bread  which  cometh  down  from  heaven, 
that  a  man  may  eat  thereof  and  not  die.  John  6-50. 

SP.  EXP.  Entertain  the  truth,  and  do  not  pass 
through  a  belief  of  death.  It  is  the  spirit  that  quick- 
eneth;  the  flesh  profiteth  nothing;  the  words  that  I 
speak  unto  you,  they  are  spirit  and  they  are  life. 
John  6-63. 


I  am  the  light  of  the  world.     He  that  followeth  me 

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shall  not  walk  in  darkness,  but  shall  have  the  light 
of  life.  John  8-12. 

I  am  come  that  they  might  have  more  life  and  that 
they  might  have  it  more  abundantly.  John  10-10. 

My  sheep  hear  my  voice,  and  I  know  them  and 
they  follow  me.  John  10-27. 

And  I  GIVE  unto  them  eternal  life;  and  they  shall 
never  perish,  neither  shall  any  man  pluck  them  out 
of  my  hand.  John  10-28. 

SP.  EXP.  Eternal  life  is  the  gift  of  God,  and  can- 
not be  plucked  from  man.  Man  cannot  perish:  we 
have  Gods  word  for  it.  We  have  to  work  out  our 
own  salvation,  and  Jesus  Christ  is  the  wayshower. 
Let  us  follow  His  leadership. 

Jesus  said  unto  her:  I  am  the  resurrection  and 
the  life:  he  that  believeth  on  Me  though  he  were 
dead,  yet  shall  he  live.  John  11-25. 

SP.  EXP.  Resurrected  from  false  beliefs  of  sick- 
ness and  death.  Although  mankind  does  entertain 
these  false  beliefs  of  life  in  matter,  and  that  he  must 
die,  he  will  be  lifted  out  of  these  beliefs  and  know 
that  life  is  eternal. 

Because  I  Live,  ye  shall  live  also.     John  14,  19. 

An  emphatic  statement. 

And  this  is  life  eternal,  that  they  might  know  thee, 
the  only  true  God  and  Jesus  Christ  whom  thou  hast 
sent.  John  17,  3. 

God  that  made  the  world  and  all  things  therein 
seeing  that  He  is  LORD  of  heaven  and  earth  dwelleth 
not  in  temples  made  with  hands.  Acts  17,  24. 

NEITHER  is  worshipped  with  men's  hands,  as 
though  He  needed  anything  seeing  He  giveth  to  all 
life,  and  breath  and  all  things.  Act  17-25. 

For  in  HIM  we  live  and  move  and  have  our  being. 
As  certain  of  your  own  poets  have  said,  For  we  are 

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also  His  offspring.     Acts  17,  28. 

SP.  EXP.  Man  living,  moving  and  having  his 
being  in  God,  finds  it  impossible  to  sin,  suffer  and 
die.  If  we  live  in  God,  our  being  is  heavenly,  for 
God  is  heaven.  Think,  O  man. 

For  if  by  one  man's  offence  death  reigned  by  one; 
much  more  they  which  receive  abundance  of  grace 
and  the  gift  of  righteousness  shall  reign  in  life  by  one 
Christ  Jesus.  Rom.  5-17. 

SP.  EXP.  Take  the  word  of  Christ  Jesus,  believe 
and  live.  The  belief  of  death  was  abolished  in  the 
resurrection  of  Jesus  from  the  tomb. 

By  the  righteousness  of  one,  the  free  gift  came 
upon  all  men  unto  justification  of  life.  Rom.  5-18. 

That  as  sin  hath  reigned  unto  death,  even  so  might 
grace  reign  through  righteousness  unto  eternal  life 
by  Jesus  Christ.  Rom.  5-21. 

SP.  EXP.  Sin  has  reigned  in  belief  and  has  been 
destroyed  by  one  Christ  Jesus. 

For  the  law  of  the  spirit  of  life  in  Christ  Jesus 
hath  made  me  free  from  the  law  of  sin  and  death. 
Rom.  8-2. 

SP.  EXP.  Jesus  came  to  bring  life  and  immortal- 
ity to  light  through  the  gospel.  It  had  seemingly 
been  covered  to  mortal  sense.  The  truth  of  Christ 
revealed  it  to  the  material  world. 

When  Christ  who  is  our  life  shall  appear,  then 
shall  ye  also  appear  with  him  in  glory.  Col.  3-4. 

But  is  now  made  manifest  by  the  appearing  of  our 
Savior,  Jesus  Christ,  who  hath  abolished  death  (a 
belief  in  death)  and  hath  brought  life  and  immor- 
tality to  light  through  the  gospel.  2  Tim.  1-10. 

In  hope  of  eternal  life,  which  God  that  cannot  lie, 
promised  before  the  world  began.  Titus  1-2. 

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SP.  EXP.  The  two  above  verses  are  self  explana- 
tory. Digest  all  thoroughly. 

God  hath  given  man  eternal  life  and  this  life  is  in 
His  Son.  John  5-11. 

And  we  know  that  the  son  of  God  is  come,  and 
hath  given  us  an  understanding  that  we  may  know 
Him  that  is  truth;  and  we  are  in  him  that  is  true, 
even  in  His  Son  Jesus  Christ.  This  is  the  true  God, 
and  eternal  life.  John  5-20. 

I  WILL  give  unto  him  that  is  athirst  of  the  water 
of  life  freely.  Rev.  21-6. 

SP.  EXP.  Mankind  thirsting  for  truth  can  have  it 
by  obedience  to  right  thinking,  Christ  Thought. 

Blessed  are  they  that  do  his  commandments,  that 
they  may  have  a  right  to  the  tree  of  life  and  may 
enter  in  through  the  gates  unto  the  City.  Rev.  22-14. 

Our  God  whom  we  serve  is  able  to  deliver  us  out 
of  their  hand,  O  KING.  Dan.  3-17. 

My  God  hath  sent  His  angels  and  hath  shut  the 
lions  mouths  that  they  have  not  hurt  me.  Dan  6-22. 

SP.  EXP.  God,  if  man  trust  Him  and  is  obedient 
to  His  will,  will  lead  him  safely  and  will  not  permit 
evil  to  fasten  its  fangs  on  him.  The  lion's  mouth 
will  be  closed  The  evil  thoughts  or  mortals  cannot 
fasten  on  the  man  whose  trust  is  in  God. 

Let  man  be  an  obedient  servant  through  Jesus 
Christ. 

None  of  his  sins  that  he  hath  committed  shall  be 
mentioned  unto  him;  he  hath  done  what  is  lawful 
and  right.  He  shall  surely  live.  Ezek  33-16. 

SP.  EXP.  Who  created  man?  Man  is  God's  crea- 
tion. Was  man  Made  good,  or  endowed  with  evil 
propensities?  Good,  yea,  very  good.  Can  evil  be 
found  in  good?  No.  From  whence  did  it  originate? 

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Just  where  a  lie  originated;  not  in  the  truth.  Just 
where  a  counterfeit  dollar  originated,  not  in  the  mint. 
It  is  a  false,  perverted  creation,  not  to  be  accepted 
by  man.  Evil  must  not  be  accepted  or  handled,  as  it 
tarnishes,  defiles  us, 

With  thee  is  the  fountain  of  Life;  In  thy  life  shall 
we  see  light.  Ps.  36-9. 

Therefore  O  thou  son  of  man,  speak  unto  the  house 
of  Israel;  thus  ye  speak,,  saying,  if  our  trangressions 
and  our  sins  be  upon  us  and  we  pine  away  in  them, 
how  should  we  then  live?  Ezek.  33-10. 

Say  unto  them,  as  I  live  saith  the  Lord,  God,  I 
have  no  pleasure  in  the  death  of  the  wicked;  but 
that  the  wicked  turn  from  his  way  and  live;  turn  ye, 
turn  ye  from  your  evil  ways,  for  why  will  ye  die, 
O  house  of  Israel.  Ezek.  33-11. 


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DEATH. 

But  if  the  wicked  will  turn  from  all  his  sins  that 
he  hath  committed,  and  keep  all  my  statutes,  and  do 
that  which  is  lawful  and  right,  he  shall  live,  he  shall 
not  die.  Eccl.  18-21. 

SP.  EXP.  Man  has  to  correct  his  evil  mortal 
thoughts.  He  must  think  right  and  act  right  if  he 
expects  to  have  health  and  happiness  and  to  be 
prosperous  in  well  doing. 

Have  I  any  pleasure  at  all  that  the  wicked  should 
die?  said  the  Lord  God,  and  not  that  he  should  turn 
from  his  ways  and  live?  Ezek.  18-23. 

Because  he  considereth  and  turned  away  from  all 
his  transgressions  that  he  hath  committed,  he  shall 
surely  live,  he  shall  not  die.  Ecc.  18-28. 

Cast  away  from  you  all  your  transgressions  whereby 
ye  have  transgressed  and  make  you  a  new  heart,  and 
a  new  spirit,  For  why  will  ye  die,  0  sons  of  Israel. 
Ezek.  18-31. 

For  I  have  no  pleasure  in  the  death  of  him  that 
dieth,  saith  the  Lord,  God,  wherefore  turn  yourselves 
and  live  ye.  V.  32. 

Even  so  it  is  not  the  will  of  your  Father  which  is 
in  heaven  that  one  of  these  little  ones  shall  perish. 
Matt.  18-24. 

God  is  not  the  God  of  the  dead  hut  of  the  living: 
for  all  live  unto  Him.  Luke  20-38. 

Verily,  verily  I  say  unto  you  if  a  man  keep  my 
sayings,  he  shall  never  see  death.  John  5-24. 

For  the  wages  of  sin  is  death,  but  the  gift  of  God 
is  eternal  life  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord.  Rom. 
6-23. 

SP.  EXP.  Life  has  to  be  sought  and  obtained 
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through  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  The  fleshly  man 
never  had  it,  but  it  is  his  by  seeking.  Seek  and  ye 
shall  find,  knock  and  it  shall  be  opened  unto  you. 

For  when  we  were  in  the  flesh  the  motions  of  sin 
which  were  by  the  law,  did  work  in  our  members  to 
bring  forth  fruits  unto  death.  Rom.  7-5. 

But  now  we  are  delivered  from  the  law  that  being 
dead  wherein  we  were  held,  that  we  should  serve  in 
newness  of  spirit  and  not  in  the  oldness  of  the  letter. 
Verse  6. 

SP.  EXP.  The  letter  killeth,  the  spirit,  it  is  life, 
God  is  spirit.  He  is  life;  man  His  spiritual  child. 
God's  man  is  not  found  in  the  flesh. 

For  to  be  carnally  minded  is  death,  But  to  be 
spiritually  minded  is  life  and  peace.  Rom.  8-6. 

For  if  we  live  after  the  flesh  we  shall  die,  but  if 
ye  through  the  spirit  do  mortify  the  deeds  of  the 
body,  ye  shall  live.  V.  13. 

For  as  in  Adam  all  die,  even  so  in  Christ  shall  all 
be  made  alive.  1  Cor.  15-22. 

The  last  enemy  that  shall  be  destroyed  is  death. 
V.  26. 

The  sting  of  death  is  sin,  and  the  strength  of  sin 
is  the  law.  V.  56.  Be  obedient  to  the  law  of  the 
Lord. 

For  he  that  soweth  to  the  flesh  shall  of  the  flesh 
reap  corruption;  but  he  that  soweth  to  the  spirit  shall 
of  the  spirit  reap  life  everlasting.  Gal  6-8.  (Let 
man  sow  to  the  spirit.) 

For  as  much  then  as  the  children  are  partakers  of 
flesh  and  blood,  he  also  himself  likewise  took  part  of 
the  same;  that  through  death  he  might  destroy  him 
that  had  power  of  death,  that  is  the  devil.  Hab.  2-4. 

SP.  EXP.     The  person  in  the  above  verse  was  the 

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fleshly  Jesus,  and  as  He  laid  off  the  flesh,  so  mortal 
man  must  lay  it  off. 

And  delivered  them,  who  through  fear  of  death 
were  all  their  lifetime  subject  to  bondage.  V.  15. 

We  know  that  we  have  passed  from  death  unto  life 
because  we  love  the  brethren.  He  that  loveth  not 
his  brother  abideth  he  in  death.  1  John  3-10. 

SP.  EXP.  Brother,  sister,  cultivate  love.  Never 
see  or  speak  ill  of  your  brother.  What  we  see  in 
another  is  the  product  of  our  own  mortal  thoughts. 
See  no  evil,  listen  to  no  evil,  speak  no  evil.  Rest  on 
the  rock  of  LIFE. 


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SCRIPTURAL  PASSAGES  ON  HEALING 

And  the  Lord  will  take  away  from  thee  all  sickness 
and  will  put  none  of  these  evil  diseases  of  Egypt 
which  thou  knowest  upon  thee.  Duet.  7-15. 

SPIRITUAL  EXPLANATION.  By  knowing  the 
Truth  that  in  the  Divine  Principle  of  God,  good,  no 
evil  can  be  found.  It  is  wrong  thinking  that  creates 
svil,  sickness,  pain  and  death.  The  discords  are  not 
found  in  the  principle  of  music.  Harmony  is  music. 
Discord  is  inharmony.  Not  found  in  God's  man. 

And  Asa  in  the  thirty  and  ninth  year  of  his  reign 
was  diseased  in  his  feet  until  his  disease  was  exceed- 
ing great.  Yet  in  his  disease  he  sought  not  to  the 
Lord,  hut  to  the  physicians.  2  Chron.  16-12. 

And  Asa  slept  with  his  fathers  and  died.     V.  13. 

SP.  EXP.  I  was  an  Asa,  and  for  thirty  years,  I 
staid  faithfully  by  my  physicians.  They  also  were 
faithful,  but  the  true  Christ  healing  was  offered  me. 
I  accepted  it  I  have  had  seventeen  years  of  health. 

Because  thou  hast  made  the  Lord  which  is  my 
refuge  even  the  most  high,  thy  habitation, 

There  shall  no  evil  befall  thee,  neither  shall  any 
plague  come  nigh  thy  dwelling.  Psalm  91  9-10. 

The  eyes  of  the  blind  shall  be  opened,  and  the  ears 
of  the  deaf  shall  be  unstopped.  Isa.  35-5. 

Then  shall  the  lame  man  leap  as  an  hart,  and  the 
tongue  of  the  dumb  sing;  far  in  the  wilderness  shall 
water  break  out,  the  streams  in  the  desert.  Isa.  35-6. 

SP.  EXP.  Our  eyes  and  ears  will  be  open  to  the 
truth,  and  mankind  will  listen  to  Christ's  words  and 
be  healed. 

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For  the  Lord  will  bless  the  righteous  and  with 
favor  wilt  thou  compass  him  as  with  a  shield.  Ps. 
542. 

O  Lord,  my  God,  I  cried  unto  thee  and  thou  hast 
healed  me.  Ps.  30-2. 

SP.  EXP.  The  Lord  is  ever  ready  to  give  out  His 
blessings  to  those  that  seek  Him.  Seek  and  ye  shall 
find.  Seek  for  good,  not  evil.  Deny  the  evil,  affirm 
the  Truth,  Truth  kills  destroys  a  lie.  When  mortal 
man  reaches  out  unto  God  with  a  true  heart,  desiring 
good,  God  will  not  give  him  a  stone.  God  gives  noth- 
ing but  good — health,  harmony,  peace,  joy.  For  He 
is  the  embodiment  of  good. 

O  Lord,  Thou  has  brought  up  my  soul  from  the 
grave:  Thou  hast  kept  me  alive,  that  I  shouldst  not 
go  down  to  the  pit.  Ps.  30-3. 

SP.  EXP.  •  The  understanding  that  death  does  not 
exist  as  a  truth  but  as  a  falsity  lifts  man,  mortal 
thought,  out  of  the  mire,  and  places  him  on  the  rock, 
Christ  Jesus  and  into  a  heavenly  happy  state  of  mind. 
He  is  not  left  down  in  the  depths  of  despair9  in  a 
belief  in  death. 

Pull  me  out  of  the  net  that  they  have  laid  privily 
for  me  for  thou  are  my  strength.  Ps.  31-4. 

Into  Thine  Hand  I  commend  my  Spirit;  Thou  hast 
redeemed  me  O  Lord,  God  of  Truth.  Ps.  31-15. 

SP.  EXP.  Lift  mankind  out  of  the  pitfalls  of  des- 
pair, his  false  beliefs  in  error,  and  life  in  matter,  out 
of  belief  in  sickness,  fear,  doubt  and  death,  and  show 
him  the  Christ  way  to  life,  and  health  by  right  think' 
ing.  Place  his  feet  on  the  path  to  Heaven,  harmony 
and  a  pure  state  of  consciousness.  Then  man  real- 
izes  that  he  is  delivered  from  his  enemies,  his  false 
beliefs  of  sin  and  death. 

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Many  are  the  afflictions  of  the  righteous,  but  the 
Lord  delivereth  him  out  of  them  all.  Ps.  34-19. 

He  keepeth  all  his  bones,  not  one  of  them  is  broken. 
Ps.  34-2. 

SP.  EXP.  What  a  loving  protection  we  find  in  be- 
ing obedient  to  the  great  encompassing  principle  of 
good. 

For  the  Lord  loveth  judgment  and  foresaketh  not 
his  saints,  they  are  preserved  forever.  (Through 
obedience). 

The  righteous  shall  inherit  the  land,  and  dwell 
therein  forever.  Ps.  37  28-29.  (Land  of  conscious- 
ness). 

Cast  thy  burden  upon  the  Lord,  and  He  shall  sus- 
tain thee.  He  shall  never  suffer  the  righteous  to  be 
moved.  Ps.  55-22. 

SP.  EXP.  Submit  all  to  God,  and  do  His  will;  He 
is  our  shield  and  buckler. 

I  will  cry  unto  God  most  high,  unto  God  that  per- 
formeth  all  things  for  me.  Ps.  57-2. 

My  soul,  wait  thou  upon  God;  for  my  expectation 
is  from  Him.  Ps.  62,  5. 

He  is  my  rock  and  my  salvation;  He  is  my  de- 
fense, I  shall  not  be  moved.  Ps.  62-6. 

SP.  EXP.  Lift  up  our  thoughts  in  praise  to  Him, 
and  know  Him  as  our  redeemer.  He  saves  us  from 
all  trouble. 

He  that  dwelleth  in  the  secret  place  of  the  most 
High,  shall  abide  under  the  shadow  of  the  Almighty. 
Ps.  91-1. 

SP.  EXP.  When  man  realizes  that  he  lives,  moves, 
and  has  his  being  in  God  and  is  trusting  his  all  to 
God,  he  is  dwelling  in  the  secret  place  of  the  most 

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High.     He  does  abide  in  the  shadow  of  the  loving 
Father,  Mother,  God. 

Then  shall  thou  tread  upon  the  lion  and  the  adder; 
the  young  lion  and  the  dragon  shall  thou  trample 
underfoot.  Ps.  91-13. 

SP.  EXP.  All  error  becomes  nothing  to  GocTs 
man,  to  be  trodden  underfoot  and  perish.  God  is  not 
its  creator.  He  made  good  only. 

Who  forgiveth  all  thine  iniquities,  who  healeth  all 
thy  diseases.  Ps.  103-3. 

SP.  EXP.  The  above  declares  that  God  heals  all 
our  diseases.  Does  it  say  that  man's  help  is  needed? 
Did  not  Jesus  heal?  Did  He  not  command  his  fol- 
lowers to  go  and  do  likewise?  Is  man  GocFs  su- 
perior? Is  God  to  become  a  secondary  considera- 
tion? 

He  sent  his  word  and  healed  them  and  delivered 
them  from  their  destruction.  Ps,  107-20. 


HEALING. 

Ye  shall  know  them  by  their  fruits.  Every  good 
tree  bringeth  forth  good  fruit.  Matt.  7-16-17. 

And  Jesus  went  about  all  the  cities  and  villages 
teaching  in  their  synagogues,  and  preaching  the  gos- 
pel of  the  kingdom  and  healing  every  sickness  and 
every  disease  among  the  people.  Matt.  9-35. 

And  as  ye  go  preach,  saying  the  kingdom  of  heaven 
is  at  hand.  Matt.  10-7. 

Heal  the  sick,  cleanse  the  lepers,  raise  the  dead, 
cast  out  devils,  freely  ye  have  received,  freely  give. 
Matt.  10-8. 

Quotations  from  Jesus 

Go  out  into  all  the  world  and  preach  the  gospel 
and  heal  the  sick.  What  I  have  done  ye  shall  do 
also  even  greater  things  shall  ye  do.  If  ye  have  faith 
and  doubt  not,  ye  shall  say  unto  this  mountain,  be 
thou  removed  and  cast  into  the  sea,  and  it  shall  be 
done.  (Mountains  of  errors,  seas  of  errors). 

And  these  signs  shall  follow  them  that  believe.  In 
my  name  shall  they  cast  out  devils,  and  they  shall 
speak  with  tongues. 

They  shall  take  up  serpents  and  if  they  drink  any 
deadly  thing  it  shall  not  hurt  them.  They  shall  lay 
hands  on  the  sick  and  they  shall  recover. 

SP.  EXP.  To  cast  out  all  evil  beliefs  such  as  sin, 
sickness  and  death,  and  entertain  new  happy 
thoughts.  Take  up  the  evil  sick  serpent  thoughts  and 
destroy  them  in  your  consciousness,  and  if  you  have 
taken  into  your  mortal  consciousness  any  thoughts  oj 
sin,  sickness  and  death,  the  understanding  of  the 
truth  as  Jesus  has  given  it  will  destroy  it  all  in  your 
thought.  (Consciousness.) 

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Now  when  the  sun  was  setting  all  they  that  had 
any  sick  with  divers  diseases  brought  them  unto  him 
and  He  laid  His  hands  on  them  and  healed  them. 

SP.  EXP.  All  were  healed  through  the  under- 
standing of  Jesus.  Man  is  given  the  same  power  if 
obedient  to  Christ  Jesus9  commands. 

And  a  woman  having  an  issue  of  blood  twelve 
years,  which  had  spent  all  her  living  upon  physicians, 
neither  could  be  healed  of  any  came  behind  Him  and 
touched  the  border  of  His  garment  and  immediately 
her  issue  of  blood  was  staunched.  Luke  8,  43-44. 

SP.  EXP.  What  faith!  For  thirty  years  I  spent 
my  money  on  physicians,  and  for  over  twenty  years 
for  my  dear  wife.  No  cure.  But  through  the  advice 
of  friends  we  accepted  the  Christ  teachings,  and  we 
have  both  been  in  the  enjoyment  of  health  for  many 
years.  Bless  the  Lord. 

Insomuch  as  they  brought  forth  the  sick  into  the 
streets  and  laid  them  on  beds  and  couches,  that  at 
least  the  shadow  of  Peter  passing  by  might  over- 
shadow some  of  them.  (Wonderful  faith.) 

There  came  also  a  multitude  out  of  the  cities 
round  about  unto  Jerusalem  bringing  sick  folks;  and 
them  which  were  vexed  with  unclean  spirits  and  they 
were  healed  everyone. 

And  God  wrought  special  miracles  by  the  hand  of 
Paul 


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PAUL'S  FAITH  IN  GOD. 

"And  God  wrought  special  miracles  by  the  hands 
of  Paul."  (Acts  19-11.) 

"And  when  Paul  had  gathered  a  bundle  of  sticks, 
and  laid  them  on  the  fire,  there  came  a  viper  out  of 
the  heat  and  fastened  on  his  hand."  (Acts  28-3.) 

"And  he  shook  off  the  beast  in  the  fire,  and  felt  no 
harm."  V.  5. 

Howbeit  they  looked  when  he  should  have  swollen 
or  fallen  down  dead  suddenly;  but  after  they  had 
looked  a  great  while  and  saw  no  harm  come  to  him, 
they  changed  their  minds,  and  said  that  he  was  a 
God.  V.  6. 

SP.  EXP.  What  is  the  viper  which  fastens  itself 
on  man,  but  a  false  belief  of  life  in  matter.  A  belief 
that  sin,  sickness,  and  death,  can,  like  a  viper,  fasten 
itself  so  firmly  in  the  mind  of  the  human  fleshly  man 
that  he  believes  he  has  life  in  this  flesh  and  he  can 
suffer  and  die.  He  does  not  life  his  mind  above  the 
human  unto  God.  Spirit  as  the  life  of  man  is  not 
found  in  the  flesh,  but  in  God.  Jesus  came  to  bring 
life  and  immortality  to  life  through  the  gospel. 
Jesus  the  Christ  was  the  light  of  the  world.  He  said 
"Follow  me."  And  we  as  true  followers  of  the 
Christ  Jesus  can  shake  off  the  viper  of  death.  The 
mortal  belief  of  sin  and  sickness  which  leads  to  a 
false  belief  in  death.  O  ye  of  little  faith,  believe 
and  be  baptised  into  the  Truth  which  Christ  Jesus 
presented  in  mankind,  when  He  said  go  ye  out  into  all 
the  world  and  preach  the  gospel  and  heal  the  sick. 

Let  us  have  faith,  Faith  without  works  is  dead. 
Man  who  has  the  faith  in  Christ  does  the  healing 
work. 

"He  therefore  that  ministereth  to  you  the  spirit, 

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and  worketh  miracles  among  you,  doeth  he  it  by  the 
works  or  law,  or  by  the  hearing  of  faith?"     Gal  3-5. 

SP.  EXP.  Destroy  all  beliefs  of  sickness,  sin  and 
death  in  the  man  of  flesh,  and  cause  him  to  know 
that  all  life  is  in,  and  of  God,  never  found  in  the 
fleshly  man. 

"Women  received  their  dead  raised  to  life  again." 
V.  35. 

"Faith  if  it  hath  not  works  is  dead,  being  alone." 
(Jas.  3-17). 

"And  the  prayer  of  faith  shall  save  the  sick,  and 
the  Lord  shall  raise  him  up."  V.  15. 

"The  effectual  fervent  prayer  of  a  righteous  man 
availeth  much."  V.  16. 

SP.  EXP.  Let  mortal  man  have  faith  in  the  great 
and  only  principle  of  good,  God,  Divine  Principle 
and  be  healed  and  Live. 


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THE  CARNAL  MIND,  ETC. 

If  mortal  man  would  realize  his  safe  footing,  he 
must  know  that  PAUL  speaks  truly  when  he  says 
that  the  child  of  flesh  is  not  the  child  of  God,  also 
flesh  and  hlood  pronteth  nothing.  The  carnal  mind 
is  at  enmity  to  God.  Cen  he  for  a  moment  believe 
that  the  Infinite  God,  all  good,  all  powerful,  could 
create  a  mind  in  His  idea,  to  be  at  enmity  to  HIM- 
SELF?^ read  in  Romans  8,  2-3-4:  For  the  law  of 
the  spirit  of  life  in  Christ  Jesus  hath  made  me  free 
from  the  law  of  sin  and  death.  For  what  the  law 
could  not  do,  in  that  it  was  weak  thro*  the  flesh, 
God  sending  His  own  son  in  the  likeness  of  sinful 
flesh,  and  for  sin  condemned  in  the  flesh,  that  the 
righteousness  of  the  law  might  be  fulfilled  in  us  who 
Walk  not  after  the  flesh  but  after  the  spirit. 

SP.  EXP.  We  gather  from  this:  that  the  carnal 
mind  is  not  the  mind  of  God,  nor  of  his  creation. 
It  is  the  father  of  the  belief  that  man  exists  in  the 
flesh  as  a  creation  of  God.  Could  this  be  a  truth? 
Jesus9  advent  was  in  the  flesh,  and  for  sin  was  con- 
demned in  the  flesh.  Is  God  held  accountable  for 
the  evil  created  by  man?  God  forbid.  No,  my 
brother,  take  the  word  of  Paul  for  it.  For  the  laic 
of  the  spirit  of  life  in  Christ  Jesus  hath  made  me  free 
from  the  law  of  sin  and  death.  Yes,  obey  God?s  law 
and  be  free  from  sin  and  death.  God  is  the  only  life, 
and  He  is  not  found  in  the  flesh  which  He  con- 
demned. Let  the  righteousness  of  Goef  s  law  be  ful- 
filled in  us,  and  let  us  not  walk  after  the  flesh  but 
after  the  spirit.  Let  us  have  the  spirit  of  Christ 
JESUS  in  us,  and  love  our  neighbor  as  ourselves.  We 
will  never  be  free  from  our  false  beliefs  until  we 
learn  to  follow  Jesus  and  forsake  evil,  and  affirm  the 

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Truth.  Man  is  God's  child  when  he  manifests  love 
in  his  daily  life.  Man  is  entertaining  the  serpent 
thought  when  he  maintains  that  he  exists  in  the  flesh. 
The  serpent  beguiled  Eve  and  he  is  beguiling  all  who 
see  life  in  the  material  body,  instead  of  knowing  that 
God  is  our  life.  Man  in  the  flesh  is  as  truly  opposite 
of  the  real  man  as  a  spurious  dollar  counterfeits  the 
one  produced  by  the  mint.  Mankind  needs  spiritual 
purgation.  He  has  an  over  loading  of  sick  evil 
thoughts.  The  different  diseases  seeming  to  exist  in 
him  are  just  beliefs.  We  all  have  a  lot  of  terri- 
ble beliefs.  Just  begin  to  unload  and  get  rid  of  them. 
Then  what  will  we  find?  Nothing  but  health.  Just 
leave  the  big  "D"  off  of  devil  and  what  is  left — evil, 
Why  add  the  D9  Why  take  from  man  his  healthy 
thoughts  and  leave  him  sin,  sickness  and  death?  Just 
see  the  flesh  as  nothing,  God  as  spirit  and  God's  man 
spiritual.  Then  there  will  be  no  man  to  think  evil. 
Evil  is  that  evil  thinketh.  Good  is  as  good  thinketh. 
The  devil  is  evil  in  the  fleshly  mind.  God  is  good  in 
the  spiritual  mind.  See  no  evil,  hear  no  evil,  speak 
no  evil.  Heaven  is  ours  in  our  consciousness,  now. 


HEALING. 

Affirm  health  and  deny  evil.  Take  in  the  scrip- 
tural words,  dissect  them,  separate  the  gold  from  the 
dross,  that  is,  good  from  evil,  wheat  from  the  chaff, 
see  God  as  all,  evil  nothing.  Let  us  obey  Christ 
Jesus'  teachings  as  the  mariner  oheys  the  compass 
and  knows  his  whereabouts  on  the  great  deep  through 
his  instruments. 

Man  has  been  falsely  educated  to  believe  in  life,  in 
matter;  instead  of  in  spirit,  God.  The  Bible  tells  us 
that  God  is  Spirit,  and  man  is  his  image  and  likeness. 
Can  this  image  be  found  in  the  fleshly  man  who 
seems  to  die?  Can  death  be  called  the  image  of  life? 
Can  evil  be  the  image  of  good?  Sickness  that  of 
health?  Can  God  be  the  Creator  of  all  good,  and 
at  the  same  time  the  creator  of  good's  opposite?  Can 
man  be  thinking  of  health  and  happiness,  which  is  of 
God,  and  at  the  same  time  have  thoughts  of  evil,  sin 
and  death? 

The  man  of  flesh  does  appear  to  be  real  and  to 
possess  life.  Jesus  said,  judge  not  by  appearances, 
but  judge  righteous  judgment.  Our  life  is  in  God. 
Be  not  deceived  my  brother,  my  sister,  but  search 
the  scriptures  and  you  will  find  that  there  is  but  one 
Creator,  God,  Mind. 

God  will  ever  be  to  man  what  man  believes  Him 
to  be ;  and  evil  will  ever  be  the  same.  All  the  power 
evil  has  in  what  man  gives  it.  Let  us  see  that  we  take 
from,  and  not  add  to.  Always  deny  evil,  and  affirm 
truth,  if  we  want  health  and  happiness.  When  we 
affirm  sick,  lame,  halt  blind  or  discordant  in  body,  it 
is  a  tearing  down  process.  To  build  up  to  be  strong 
and  healthy,  man  must  lay  claim  to  the  good.  It  is 
the  building  process. 

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God  did  not  create  evil.  He  created  only  good. 
How  can  evil  proceed  from  good,  when  God  declares 
that  He  is  of  too  pure  eyes  to  behold  evil?  The  old 
adage,  "evil  is  that  evil  thinketh,"  As  a  man  thinketh 
in  his  heart  so  is  he.  Arise,  and  think  with  God. 
Evil  is  unreal,  it  has  no  reality.  When  we  claim  God 
as  the  only  Creator,  if  we  accept  evil  as  reality,  we 
admit  that  God  made  it,  and  if  so,  he  entertained 
thoughts  of  evil,  and  could  not  be  purely  good,  and  if 
evil  is  created  by  God,  man  must  of  necessity  bear 
patiently  with  it.  God  is  in  His  Law  and  His  law  is 
everywhere.  God  is  the  spirit  or  substance  of  all 
there  is.  Good  is  God.  Drop  one  "o"  from  "good" 
and  we  have  God — add  the  letter  "D"  to  evil,  and  we 
have  "Devil."  God  must  be  life  to  live.  God  is  our 
life,  health,  strength,  All  in  All. 

The  Kingdom  of  Heaven  is  within  us,  Love  mani- 
fests Heaven.  As  man  is  filled  with  God's  love,  he 
is  harmonious  and  heavenly.  Man  is  the  embodiment 
of  God's  thoughts,  mind,  Spirit,  God,  Wisdom  is  of 
God. 

God  created  man  in  his  own  image  and  likeness. 
Man  must  be  like  God,  good,  to  be  His  image  and 
likeness.  Ask  yourself  is  this  fleshly  man,  this  sick 
sinful  dying  man,  the  image  of  the  living  God?  As 
there  is  but  one  real  creation  it  is  a  living  creation, 
not  a  dying  one.  The  Spiritual  man  knows  God  his 
creator.  The  fleshly  man  has  no  creator  to  know.  He 
is  unlike  God,  good.  Man  to  be  known  as  God's 
image  and  likeness  is  to  be  found  as  the  embodiment 
of  Divine  principle  wholeness,  purity,  love,  wisdom, 
the  essence  of  Good.  Man  is  but  the  thought  of 
God,  Mind.  Wisdom  is  the  intelligence  of  God,  Mind. 
Mind  is  the  Creator  of  all  good.  Evil  has  no  cre- 
ator, it  is  a  lie.  A  lie  is  not  found  in  the  Truth. 
It  has  no  part  in  the  Truth.  So  the  fleshly  man  is  no 
part  of  God,  and  is  not  the  man  of  God's  creation, 

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and  does  not  manifest  life  in  its  true  sense.     Death 
is  the  extinction  of  life.     What  God  made  cannot  die. 

Man  lives,  moves  and  has  his  being  in  God.  Man 
living  in  God  lives  in  Heaven  for  God  is  Heaven. 
Heaven  is  where  God  is,  and  the  Bible  says  there  is 
no  place  where  God  is  not.  This  being  true,  man  is 
eternally  in  Heaven,  consequently  must  be  eternally 
healthy,  happy,  harmonious,  well.  He  must  enjoy 
healthy,  happy  thoughts  to  be  heavenly.  No  evil 
thoughts  that  we  attach  to  our  liver,  stomach,  bowels, 
kidneys,  heart,  lungs,  throat,  head,  blood,  nerves, 
brain,  spine,  or  entertain  in  the  mortal  mind  can  be 
found  in  the  mind  of  God.  In  His  thoughts  there  is 
no  evil.  Let  us  see  that  we  attach  no  evil  to  any  of 
the  organs  of  this  so-called  body  which  we  claim  as 
ours.  We  must  not  lay  claim  to  it.  Paul  says,  "The 
child  of  the  flesh  is  not  the  child  of  God."  We  are 
God's  children  spiritually,  not  materially.  Ecc. 
3:14  said,  nothing  can  be  added  to,  or  taken  from 
what  God  has  made. 


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WHAT  MATERIAL  MAN  HAS  BEEN 
TAUGHT. 

Mortal  man  has  for  centuries  been  taught  to  look 
to  the  body  and  claim  he  is  in  pain,  sick,  because  he 
feels  it.  He  can  locate  its  whereabouts.  He  is  not 
aware  that  the  thought  suggests  to  the  mortal  man 
that  he  is  sick  and  in  pain,  and  locates  it  to  mortal 
belief.  Paul  says,  to  be  carnally  minded  is  death, 
but  to  be  spiritually  minded  is  life  and  peace.  When 
we  learn  that  man's  life  is  in  mind,  never  in  body, 
then  we  will  learn  to  look  to  God,  Divine  Mind,  for 
life,  health,  happiness  and  success,  and  turn  away 
from  the  so  called  mortal  mind,  which  leads  us  to 
a  false  belief  of  life  in  the  flesh.  God,  Mind  is  al- 
ways able  to  care  for  His  own  creation,  which  is 
spiritual  and  not  material.  It  is  by  knowing  we  are 
spiritual  the  children  of  God,  not  of  the  flesh  that 
man  lays  off  his  false  belief  in  pain,  sickness,  sin  and 
death  and  takes  on  in  its  stead,  health. 

Let  us  continually  remind  ourselves  that  we  are  the 
children  of  God  and  not  of  matter.  We  must  insist 
momently  and  hourly  that  Divine  Mind,  God,  is  the 
only  Creator,  and  spiritually  we  are  His  children. 
Paul  says,  They  which  are  the  children  of  the  flesh, 
they  are  not  the  children  of  God.  Rom.  9:8.  Rom. 
8-1.  There  is  therefore  no  condemnation  in  them 
which  are  in  Christ  Jesus  who  walketh  not  after  the 
flesh,  but  after  the  Spirit.  We  must  take  Christ 
Jesus  as  the  way  shower,  and  follow  in  his  precept 
Do  his  bidding.  Destroy  all  fleshly  beliefs  of  life  in 
matter  and  declare  that  sickness  and  pain  do  not  ex- 
ist as  a  truth,  but  as  a  falsity.  Let  God  be  true  and 
mortal  man  a  liar. 

When  the  so  called  human  mind  is  governed  by 
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the  Divine  Mind  which  is  the  only  mind,  this  so- 
called  fleshly  man  will  manifest  health  and  harmony. 
Every  organ  in  his  body  will  display  activity.  God  is 
man's  activity.  All  that  He  created  is  ever  active. 
God  neither  slumbers  nor  sleeps  nor  does  the  man  of 
His  creation.  It  is  the  man  of  flesh  that  seems  to 
require  sleep.  It  is  the  fleshly  man  that  says  I  am 
sick,  I  am  tired.  For  God  is  eternal  life,  Man  His 
image.  Life  cannot  die.  Therefore  the  fleshly  dy- 
ing man  is  not  of  God's  creation.  We  become  the 
children  of  God  when  obedient  to  His  commands. 
The  spiritual  world  is  the  only  reality.  The  Spirit- 
ual man  is  the  Only  real  man.  The  material  world 
is  unreal;  the  material  man  is  unreal.  God  is  Spirit, 
and  all  He  creates  is  spiritual.  The  human  race  has 
been  deluded  into  believing  in  a  power  apart  from 
God,  and  into  seeing  God  as  the  creator  of  mortal 
and  a  material  world.  All  that  is  discerned  by  the 
material  senses  is  unreal. 

The  material  man  is  discordant.  He  sees  the  sun 
moving  and  the  earth  standing  still.  He  sees  man 
with  a  double  mind,  knowing  good  and  evil.  The 
spiritual  man  is  single  minded,  sees  nothing  but  good, 
knows  nothing  but  truth.  Sees  no  evil,  knows  no 
evil.  All  is  God,  good,  and  man  His  idea,  spiritual 
and  not  material,  healthy,  harmonious.  Man  giving 
way  to  sin  and  selfishness,  has  closed  the  door  against 
his  true  consciousness  of  God,  good,  and  the  true 
spiritual  understanding  of  right.  This  material  sense 
world  is  the  unreal  world.  In  this  material  world  we 
have  good  and  evil,  but  the  good  is  not  immortal 
good;  it  is  subject  to  many  changes  and  believes  in 
sin,  sickness,  evil  sorrow,  pain,  and  an  ending  in  a 
belief  in  death. 

How  is  mankind  to  be  lifted  up  out  of  its  false  be- 
liefs or  illusions?  His  false  beliefs  of  life  in  matter, 
and  a  power  apart  from  God?  Search  the  Scriptures. 

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We  will  see  that  they  tell  us  that  God  is  spirit,  and 
man  worships  Him  in  spirit  and  in  truth.  And  the 
Bihle  further  declares,  that  man,  male  and  female, 
were  created  in  His  image  and  likeness.  Therefore, 
man  must  of  necessity  be  spiritual  and  the  spiritual 
is  indisputably  eternal.  Mary  seeing  through  spir- 
itual vision  the  mistake  that  man  was  laboring  un- 
der, looked  up  to  God,  Divine  Principle,  with  all  the 
fervency  of  her  heart  and  plead  for  a  child  that  He 
might  be  the  Savior  of  the  world,  and  her  prayer 
was  answered,  in  the  birth  of  Jesus.  God  sending 
His  own  son  in  the  likeness  of  sinful  flesh,  and  for 
sin,  condemned  sin  in  the  flesh  "that  the  righteous- 
ness of  the  law  might  be  fulfilled  in  us  who  walk  not 
after  the  flesh,  but  after  the  spirit.  Rom.  8-4. 

"For  they  that  are  after  the  flesh  do  mind  the 
things  of  the  flesh;  but  they  that  are  after  the  spirit, 
the  things  of  the  spirit"  (Rom.  85).  "For  to  be  car- 
nally minded  is  death,  but  to  be  spiritually  minded 
is  life  and  peace."  (Rom.  8-6). 

SP.  EX.  Follotving  the  carnal  mind  leads  to  a  be- 
lief in  death.  The  spiritual  mind  lifts  man  up  into 
a  higher  more  lofty  thought  of  life.  And  as  God  is 
our  life  and  His  life  is  eternal,  hotv  can  death  exist? 
Jn  life  there  is  no  death.  All  is  life.  Jesus  was  born 
of  the  human  Mary.  But  the  Christ  within  him  was 
of  God.  As  a  truth  he  could  say  "The  Father 
is  greater  than  I."  The  1  of  the  flesh.  Before  Abra- 
ham was,  I  am.  So  Christ  Mind  is  God;  And  man 
ivhen  he  entertains  the  Christ  thought  is  following 
him.  And  the  Christ  thought  or  spirit  of  Christ 
manifested  in  man  is  the  true  life  of  man,  Jesus  be- 
ing of  the  flesh  fleshly,  and  Christ  the  Spirit  in  Him 
is  God. 

Jesus  the  Christ  was  the  mediator  between  God  and 
man.  The  man,  Christ  Jesus.  Our  way  is  made 
plain,  walk  in  it.  When  we  see  man  as  spiritual  and 

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not  material  and  obey  Jesus  the  Christ  the  work  is 
done.  Be  obedient.  Be  ye  obedient  to  the  law  of 
God.  Obey  Christ  Jesus'  command,  "Follow  me." 
If  we  do  we  will  rise  above  the  false  claims  of  ma- 
terial consciousness  and  enter  into  the  true  conscious- 
ness of  spirit  God.  Then  we  will  die  to  error,  or  life 
in  the  flesh,  and  realize  our  oneness  with  God,  and 
we  will  set  our  affections  on  things  above,  and  not  on 
earth.  Spiritual  thinking  is  life,  Material  thinking  is 
death.  As  in  Adam  (error)  all  men  die,  so  in  Christ 
(Truth)  shall  all  be  made  alive. 

The  material  man  is  a  dreamer,  and  when  he 
awakes  to  the  truth  of  being,  all  dreams  vanish,  and 
man  finds  himself  a  spiritual  child  of  God.  Perfect 
as  God  is  perfect.  Jesus  said  "Verily,  verily  I  say 
unto  you,  he  that  believeth  on  me,  the  works  that  1 
do  shall  he  also  do,  and  greater  works  than  these 
shall  he  do,  because  I  go  unto  the  Father." 

SP.  EXP.  These  promises  were  not  only  for  his 
disciples  of  those  days,  but  for  us  today.  Follow 
thou  me.  And  he  said  we  are  to  do  greater  works 
than  He  did.  If  we  expect  to  do  the  greater  works 
we  are  to  be  obedient  to  the  Christ  spirit.  Paul  tells 
us  that  Jesus  took  on  sinful  flesh  and  for  sin  was 
condemned  in  the  flesh,  and  as  the  flesh  has  been 
condemned  man  must  lay  off  all  fleshly  material  be- 
liefs and  put  on  the  new  man.  The  Christ  purified 
man.  The  man  of  God's  creation.  All  things  were 
made  by  Him  and  ivithout  Him  was  not  anything 
made  that  was  made.  So  let  us  obey  Christ9 s  com- 
mands. He  says  "Lo,  I  am  with  you  always  even 
unto  the  end  of  the  world"  Jesus  subdued  evil  in 
every  form  and  what  He  did  we  are  to  do  "and  even 
greater  things." 

He  conies  to  destroy  sin,  sickness,  evil  and  death. 
So  arise  in  thought  above  all  mortal  beliefs  of  life  in 
matter,  and  to  see  all  life  in  God. 

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Let  us  be  about  our  Master's  business. 

The  old  man  and  his  deeds  must  be  laid  off  for 
the  new  man. 

This  mortal  must  put  on  immortality  and  this  cor- 
ruptibility, incorruption.  And  death  is  swallowed 
up  in  victory.  O  death,  where  is  thy  sting?  O  grave, 
where  is  thy  victory? 

O  man!  unlock  the  door  of  thy  consciousness  and 
let  out  all  that  is  unlike  God.  (What  is  left?  Love.) 

In  GocTs  perfect  child  there  is  no  discontent.  All 
is  harmony.  If  this  so-called  mortal  fleshly  man 
wants  to  know  contentment  he  must  learn  that  there 
is  no  mind  but  God's  mind  and  in  this  mind  he  finds 
contentment,  and  not  discontent,  and  in  absolute  con- 
tentment man  finds  health  and  harmony.  A  con- 
tented man  is  not  a  discontented  man.  A  happy, 
healthy  man  is  neither  sad  nor  sick,  nor  is  a  discor- 
dant man,  a  healthy,  harmonious  man.  Where  are 
we  to  find  contentment?  In  seeking  the  truth  of  be- 
ing. That  man  as  God's  idea  is  spiritual  and  not  ma- 
terial, healthy,  not  unhealthy,  happy,  not  unhappy, 
good,  not  evil,  harmonious,  not  inharmonious.  Seek 
and  ye  shall  find,  knock  and  it  shall  be  opened  unto 
you.  Christ  Jesus  is  the  way,  the  truth,  and  the  life. 
''Follow  thou  me." 


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LIFE. 

If  man  believes  God  is  the  Creator  of  sickness  and 
is  all  wise,  all  powerful,  man  cannot  be  consistent  if 
he  resorts  to  materia  medica  for  help  to  abate  suf- 
ferings he  believes  God  created.  God  could  not  be 
consistent  and  create  both  good  and  its  opposite,  evil 
or  error  of  any  kind. 

Man  to  be  healthy  and  harmonious  must  banish 
forever  all  beliefs  of  life  in  matter,  and  know  that  life 
is  in  and  of  God;  mind,  God  is  our  life.  As  the  sun 
gives  to  this  material  world,  light  and  heat,  so  God 
gives  out  life  and  health  to  his  ideas;  and  in  propor- 
tion as  man  lays  off  this  human  sense  and  accepts  in 
its  stead  the  Divine  sense,  man  becomes  the  master  of 
all  his  beliefs  of  life  in  matter  and  all  its  so  called 
claims  of  sin,  sickness  and  death.  A  good  man  out 
of  the  good  treasures  of  his  heart  bringeth  forth  good 
things,  and  an  evil  man  out  of  evil  treasures  of  his 
heart  bringeth  forth  evil  things. 

If  a  man  thinks  good,  his  life  will  manifest  good, 
and  if  his  thought  be  evil,  evil  will  result.  As  a  man 
thinketh  in  his  heart,  so  is  he.  Let  our  thoughts  be 
good  only.  God's  Kingdom  is  finished  and  the  scrip- 
tures teach  us  it  is  within  us.  It  is  within  our  reach, 
or  our  understanding.  God  is  everywhere.  Heaven 
is  a  state  of  harmony.  Hell  is  inharmony  and  as 
Heaven  is  everywhere,  where  is  hell  to  be  found? 
All  good  is  in  and  of  God.  It  is  by  the  systematic 
and  persistent  recognition  of  Good  that  evil  passes 
from  our  consciousness. 


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HARMONY. 

Harmony  and  perfection  are  a  creation  of  God, 
Mind,  which  is  eternal.  Discord  of  any  name  or  na- 
ture, is  not  found  in  the  Divine  Mind.  The  material 
so-called  man,  is  a  creation  of  error,  a  false  belief, 
that  which  seems  to  exist  and  does  not.  A  lie  is  be- 
lieved never  was  true.  It  is  a  truth  perverted.  Sick- 
ness, pain  and  death  are  never  found  in  the  immor- 
tal mind  of  GOD,  consequently  untrue.  They  seem 
to  exist,  just  as  the  sun  seems  to  move  and  does  not. 

All  discordant,  diseased  painful  thoughts  are  the 
creation  of  the  so-called  mortal  thought,  never  found 
in  the  Divine  mind.  Let  us  bridle  our  mortal  minds 
if  we  want  to  be  healthy  and  happy.  God  created 
good.  He  could  not  create  both  good  and  evil.  He 
is  not  double  minded. 

Love  is  the  key  to  Heaven.  Love  is  God.  God  is 
Heaven.  The  Kingdom  of  Heaven  is  within  us — 
within  our  true  consciousness.  Love  is  harmony,  har- 
mony is  heaven.  Love  is  the  leaven  that  enters  into 
our  true  consciousness  and  leavens  this  whole  lump 
of  humanity.  Love,  the  leaven,  enters  this  lump  of 
mortal  flesh  and  never  ceases  its  work  until  the  whole 
bundle  is  leavened,  purified.  God  is  Love,  Love  is 
God.  Nothing  can  obstruct  a  channel  of  love  in  our 
consciousness,  for  Truth  is  working  and  operating  all 
the  time.  We  cannot  suffer  from  any  human  mind, 
claim  of  sickness  or  pain,  for  Infinite  mind  governs 
every  organ  and  function  in  our  bodies.  Every  day  is 
God's  day  and  can  bring  us  nothing  but  harmony  and 
health.  Truth  is  the  alternative  and  activity  to  the 
whole  system  and  can  make  it  every  whit  whole. 
Nothing  exists  but  God  and  His  ideas,  which  is  per- 
fect, spiritual,  immortal.  Harmony  is  everywhere. 

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Inharmony  nowhere.  God  is  everywhere.  Evil  no- 
where. Love  is,  Love's  opposite  does  not  exist. 
Health  is,  sickness  is  not.  God  never  created  an  op- 
posite to  Himself,  to  destroy  what  He  created,  and 
as  God  fills  or  occupies  all  space  where  can  we  find 
room  for  His  opposite?  We  cannot,  impossible. 
When  thoughts  of  perfection  are  manifest  in  this 
body,  then  we  see  God's  man  and  Heaven  manifested 
in  good. 

The  principle  of  mathematics  does  not  teach  the 
pupil  that  one  and  one  make  three,  nor  does  the  prin- 
ciple of  music  teach  the  pupil  to  recognize  discord 
in  harmony.  Nor  does  the  Divine  principle  God 
teach  man  that  sin,  sickness,  death,  or  error  of  any 
nature  is  found  in  him.  Deny  it,  and  affirm  the 
truth,  God  is  good  and  All  in  All.  Man  must  for- 
sake his  discordant  beliefs  of  life  in  matter,  in  sick* 
ness,  sin,  death  and  acknowledge  all  life  is  in  and  of 
God,  else  God  could  not  be  All  in  All.  The  only 
true  man  is  the  man  of  God's  creation.  The  man  of 
God's  creation  is  found  in  the  Divine  mind,  never  in 
the  human.  The  God  given  health  cannot  be  taken 
from  man,  and  sickness  and  death  added  to  him. 
God  said  not  to  add  to  or  take  from  what  he  has 
created. 

Dear  reader,  which  do  you  prefer,  the  joy  and  light 
of  God's  sunshine,  health,  harmony,  life,  or  the  oppo- 
site, gloom,  despondency,  sin,  sickness  and  death? 
You  can  obtain  the  one  by  accepting  the  truth.  You 
can  obtain  the  other  by  rejecting  it. 

All  material  power  originates  in  the  power  house, 
and  is  distributed  to  the  cars  in  different  parts  of  the 
city  and  sets  them  in  motion.  So  God  is  the  great 
and  only  power  house,  mind,  and  distributes  his 
thoughts  to  His  children.  If  they  accept  and  obey 
they  manifest  life,  strength,  happiness  and  health. 


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JESUS  OUR  SHEPHERD. 

Mankind  cannot  be  forced,  but  he  can  be  led.  The 
shepherds  in  ancient  times  did  not  drive  their  sheep, 
but  led  them.  They  followed  in  perfect  trust  and 
love.  Jesus  the  divine  shepherd  said,  "Follow  me." 
Let  us  be  followers  of  Jesus,  willing  servants  of  the 
dear  Lord. 

God  is  not  the  creator  of  discordant  thoughts,  fear, 
doubt,  anger,  stubbornness,  malice,  jealousy,  hate, 
persecution,  greed,  envy,  sin,  sickness,  worry,  pain, 
death,  nor  of  malpractice  of  any  name  or  nature. 
Evil  or  discordant  mortal  thoughts  are  the  very 
opposite  or  antipode  of  God,  good,  and  the  belief  in 
them  must  be  destroyed  by  good  thinking.  They 
must  be  banished  from  material  minds.  Evil  is,  that 
evil  thinketh.  As  man  has  no  other  source  to  apply 
for  his  thoughts,  he  must  imbibe  the  purity  of  spirit, 
God.  In  Him  there  is  no  evil.  Man  cannot  be  pre- 
vented from  being  healed  by  or  through  the  Truth  if 
he  is  willing  to  be  led  by  the  Christ  thought  which 
is  the  Truth,  God  is,  and  naught  else  is.  Heat  de- 
stroys cold,  melts  ice,  Good  destroys  evil,  happiness — 
despair,  Truth — error,  light — darkness.  Fearlessness 
puts  out  fear,  love — revenge.  Let  love  reign  in  our 
hearts.  God's  creation  is  a  thought  creation.  All  is 
mind,  Mind  is  God.  All  is  All.  Man  cannot  be  lost, 
for  he  can  have  no  existence  apart  from  God.  God 
is  omnipotent  and  omnipresent. 


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MISCELLANEOUS. 

If  God  did  not  create  sickness  it  cannot  exist  as  a 
reality.  God  created  all  which  He  created  good.  If 
sickness  is  God's  creation,  it  must  be  good,  and  if  so, 
it  cannot  be  destroyed. 

When  man  knows  that  the  Principle  is  not  the 
cause  of  our  mistakes  in  life,  and  searches  for  the 
reason,  he  finds  it  in  his  own  mortal  mind. 

If  there  is  a  principle  existing  which  can  cause  an 
inanimate  object  like  the  phonograph  to  laugh  and 
sing,  and  speak  and  whistle,  the  same  principle  can 
do  the  like  with  mortal  man,  and  can  make  him 
happy  and  well.  When  the  man  at  the  helm  of  the 
great  steamer  neglects  to  manipulate  his  wheel  the 
boat  leaves  its  course,  because  it  is  not  held  to  the 
point  of  the  compass.  So  we  must  hold  to  the  Truth 
of  being,  as  our  guide  on  earth's  trackless  sea. 

No  mortal  can  be  influenced  to  do  a  wrong  deed, 
or  think  wrongly  if  he  will  obey  the  Principle  of 
right. 

Mankind  had  better  think  twice  before  acting 
once.  Then  who  does  the  thinking?  Mortal  man  or 
God?  I  say,  in  my  thought,  the  earth  stands  still  and 
the  sun  moves.  Is  it  so?  I  say,  Man  is  sick  unto 
death.  Is  it  so?  If  sickness  is  created  by  God,  it 
must  be  good.  Would  God  create  that  which  can 
destroy  life? 

None  but  the  pure  in  heart  can  see  God.  It  be- 
hooves man  to  purify  his  thoughts  from  all  beliefs  of 
life  in  matter  and  of  sickness  and  death  or  any  evil 
or  false  beliefs. 

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I  will  instruct  thee,  and  teach  thee  in  the  way  that 
thou  shall  go:  I  will  guide  thee  with  mine  eye.  Pal. 
32-8. 

And  ye  shall  serve  the  Lord  your  God  and  He  shall 
bless  thy  bread,  and  thy  water  and  I  will  take  sick- 
ness away  from  the  midst  of  thee.  Ex.  23,  20-25. 

Jesus  Christ  is  now  beckoning  unto  man  to  follow 
Him,  just  in  the  same  manner  that  He  did  on  earth 
and  if  man  wants  to  get  out  of  his  physical  ailments 
let  him  heed  the  call — lay  off  his  false  beliefs  of  life 
in  matter  and  put  on  the  robe  of  righteousness. 
"Come  unto  me  all  ye  that  labor  and  are  heavy  laden, 
and  I  will  give  you  rest."  (Truth). 

Human  mind,  the  old  serpent  talked  to  Eve  and 
led  her  astray  just  as  he  is  leading  man  now,  away 
into  the  wilderness  of  despair.  O  hearken  to  the 
bugle  call  of  love  and  follow  Christ.  The  mansion  is 
prepared  to  receive  us  all.  Jesus  took  on  mortal 
flesh  and  was  condemned  in  the  flesh.  A  lesson  for 
man;  heed  it. 

The  letter  killeth,  but  the  spirit  quickeneth.  Let 
man  imbibe  the  spirit  of  Christ.  Truth  is  right 
thinking  about  God.  Error  is  the  wrong  thinking. 
Error  causes  all  wrong  thinking.  Truth  never. 

Material  man  does  not  imbibe  the  true  thoughts  of 
God  until  he  is  ready  for  them.  He  does  not  build 
a  house  when  he  is  financially  unprepared.  To  drink 
in  to  our  mortal  consciousness  God's  loving  healthy, 
Harmonious  thoughts,  there  must  be  a  willingness,  a 
hungering  and  thirsting  for  something  better  than 
that  which  we  seem  to  have.  We  must  be  willing  to 
surrender  our  unhealthy  unhappy  beliefs  for  better 
ones. 

God  never  slumbers  nor  sleeps.     It  is  the  material 
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man  who  sleeps  until  he  awakens  to  the  truth  of  be- 
ing. God  is  All  in  All  and  we  are  included  in  the 
All. 

Man  seeing  himself  as  the  child  of  God  cannot  en- 
tertain any  evil  thoughts.  In  purity,  impurity  can- 
not be  found.  God's  thoughts  are  pure.  Man  should 
reflect  them. 

Now  if  any  man  have  not  the  spirit  of  Christ,  he 
is  none  of  his,  and  if  Christ  be  in  you  the  body  is 
dead  because  of  sin;  but  the  spirit  is  life  because  of 
righteousness.  But  if  the  spirit  of  Him  who  raised 
up  Jesus  from  the  dead  dwell  in  you,  He  shall  also 
quicken  your  mortal  bodies  by  His  spirit  that  dwell- 
eth  in  you.  Therefore,  brethren,  we  are  debtors,  not 
to  the  flesh  to  live  after  the  flesh.  For  if  ye  live 
after  the  flesh  (the  mortal  beliefs)  ye  shall  die,  but 
if  ye  through  the  spirit,  do  mortify  the  deeds  of  the 
body,  ye  shall  live.  (Rom.  8)  Remember  God's 
man  is  spiritual,  never  material.  God's  man  is  not 
found  in  the  flesh,  but  in  mind. 

All  the  wrath  that  can  be  found  in  God  is  in  His 
Law,  or  in  man's  disobedience  to  that  law.  Obedi- 
ence brings  peace,  disobedience  wrath.  Don't  charge 
it  to  God.  Be  honest  and  father  your  own  mistakes. 
God  is  love  and  cannot  create  wrath.  Love  is  Chris- 
tianity. Hate  its  opposite.  Jesus  the  Christ  teaches 
us  to  love  our  neighbor  as  we  love  ourselves.  Is  this 
love  manifested  in  the  churches  of  today?  (Don't 
talk  love,  but  live  it).  Man  is  happy  in  right  doing, 
unhappy  when  he  does  wrong.  What  discerns  right 
from  wrong  but  our  true  conscience,  The  true 
thoughts?  Mankind  must  go  to  work  and  clear  the 
weeds  out  of  his  own  thoughts.  Weeds  represent 
error.  A  good  gardener  prepares  his  ground  for  his 
crop,  then  he  procures  the  seed  from  a  reliable 
source,  and  he  plants  them,  and  then  waits  for  re- 
sults. In  due  time  he  goes  to  his  garden,  and  what 

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does  he  find?  A  crop  of  weeds!  He  exclaims, 
"These  are  not  from  the  seed  I  planted!"  And  he  be- 
gins to  investigate  and  he  finds  here  and  there  some 
of  the  products  of  his  planting  and  so  as  he,  a  pru- 
dent gardener,  meditates  and  concludes,  "These  are 
worthless  seeds  and  will  prevent  my  crop  from  ma- 
turing." And  so  with  hoe  in  hand  he  goes  out  to 
destroy  the  weeds.  Why  do  they  destroy  his  crop? 
Because  they  grow  so  rapidly  they  take  the  nutriment 
from  the  soil  and  so  the  good  plants  have  none.  The 
weeds  must  be  hoed  out  again  and  again  before  the 
crop  gets  strong  enough  to  hold  its  own,  and  absorb 
the  nourishment  necessary  for  its  development.  The 
result — a  bountiful  crop.  So  with  man.  Error  in 
the  name  of  sickness,  aches  and  pains  are  the  weeds 
to  be  destroyed  in  our  consciousness.  What  will  be 
left?  Health,  Harmony,  a  beautiful  crop.  Let  us  be 
good  gardeners. 

To  love  God  is  to  love  the  good  we  get  from  Him. 
He  can  impart  nothing  but  good.  Nothing  unlike 
Himself,  the  embodiment  of  good.  We  get  light  and 
heat  from  the  sun  and  love  and  love's  result  from 
God.  And  as  good  is  all  and  evil  nothing,  evil  can- 
not be  the  twin  of  good,  nor  good  of  evil.  God  is  the 
only  Good,  and  Jesus  Christ  the  only  wayshower. 
He  teaches  a  change  of  heart,  a  change  of  thought 
from  wrong  to  right,  from  sickness  to  health,  from 
desnair  to  happiness.  All  man  sees  through  the  ma- 
terial senses  is  unreal.  Let  man  learn  to  discern 
spiritually,  not  materially.  God's  creation  is  not  ma- 
terial. It  is  spiritual. 

1.  "There  was  a  man  of  the  Pharisees  named  Nico- 
demus,  a  ruler  of  the  Jews: 

2.  "The  same  came  to  Jesus  by  night,  and  said 
unto  him,  Rabbi,  we  know  that  thou  art  a  teacher 
come  from  God:   for  no  man  can  do  these  miracles 
that  thou  doest,  except  God  be  with  him. 

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3.  "Jesus  answered  and  said    unto    him,  Verily, 
verily  I  say  unto  thee,  Except  a  man  be  born  again 
he  cannot  see  the  kingdom  of  God. 

4.  "Nicodemus  said  unto  him,  How  can  a  man  be 
born  when  he  is  old?  can  he  enter  the  second  time 
into  his  mother's  womb  and  be  born? 

5.  "Jesus  answered,  Verily,  verily  I  say  unto  thee, 
Except  a  man  be  born  of  water  and  of  the  Spirit,  he 
cannot  enter  into  the  kingdom  of  God. 

6.  "That  which  is  born  of  the  flesh  is  flesh;  and 
that  which  is  born  of  the  spirit  is  spirit. 

7.  "Marvel  not  that  I  said  unto  thee,  Ye  must  be 
born  again. 

Ask  yourself  this  question:  Could  God  be  Spirit, 
Mind  and  the  only  creator,  and  create  all  like  Him- 
self, good,  and  at  the  same  time  create  evil?  Could 
He  create  a  man  of  the  flesh,  a  sinful  dying  man,  and 
then  be  the  embodiment  of  good?  The  answer  must 
be  No.  Man  derives  or  reflects  all  he  is,  from  God, 
and  God  is  absolute  good.  Can  man  reflect  evil  from 
good?  Can  he  get  sickness,  pain  and  death  from 
God,  good?  No,  God  is  all.  He  made  all,  yes, 
Made  all  good.  Then  can  evil  exist,  and  God  be  its 
creator?  No. 

God  made  man,  male  and  female  in  His  own  im- 
age and  likeness  and  finished  His  work,  and  rested. 
Man,  male  and  female  have  their  work  to  do.  God 
says  work  out  your  salvation;  meaning  man  is  to 
work  out  of  this  false  belief  of  life  in  matter  and 
realize  himself  as  living  and  moving  and  having  his 
being  in  God,  and  being  governed  by  Mind,  God  and 
not  by  human  mind,  so  called.  Health  and  happi- 
ness must  be  the  result.  This  is  the  problem  for  man 
to  work  out,  just  as  he  works  a  mathematical  prob- 
lem. Make  no  mistakes,  but  cling  strictly  to  the 
principle  of  right.  It  is  knowing  the  truth  that  frees 

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man.       Error,  a  mistake,  never  frees,  but  through 
error  he  wanders  further  from  the  truth. 

Climatic  influences  have  no  power  over  God's  man. 
Planets  have  no  power,  Weather  has  no  power, 
Dampness  has  no  power,  Mortal  mind  so  called  has 
no  power.  God  is  the  only  power  and  this  power 
is  good  only.  He  is  not  in  His  opposite,  No  evil  to 
fear  no  mortal  to  create  evil.  If  there  could  be,  God 
wouldn't  be  all  powerful.  Let  man  hold  to  the 
thought  of  purity,  and  not  purity's  opposite,  Love, 
not  hate,  Health,  not  sickness,  good,  not  evil.  "All 
things  work  together  for  good  to  those  who  love 
God."  Let  our  hearts  be  filled  with  love,  and  leave 
no  room  for  evil.  Just  love. 

A  man  who  wishes  to  live  under  the  protection  of 
the  United  States  flag  must  become  a  citizen  of  the 
United  States  and  obey  its  laws.  Should  he  be  Eng- 
lish, Russian,  or  German,  he  has  to  relinquish  his 
former  home  government  and  become  a  full  citizen 
of  the  United  States.  So  man  must  relinquish  his  be- 
liefs of  life  in  matter  and  accept  all  life  as  being  in 
mind,  God,  and  be  obedient  to  His  commands  and 
deny  all  evil,  and  affirm  truth  as  all.  Man  must  be 
governed  by  the  law  of  Spirit,  and  not  matter.  Pre- 
sent your  bodies  a  living  sacrifice,  holy,  acceptable 
unto  God,  says  the  scripture.  No  claim  of  sickness 
is  true  unless  God  created  it.  All  He  created  is  good. 
Who  is  willing  to  say  that  sickness,  pain  or  death  is 
good?  Christ  Jesus  came  to  destroy  sin,  sickness  and 
death.  Are  destroyed — by  putting  them  out  of  mind, 
by  right  thinking. 

Better  sweeten  our  coffee  with  sugar  than  with 
acid.  It  is  more  agreeable.  Better  sweeten  our  dis- 
positions with  love  than  with  hate,  with  good  rather 
than  evil.  Heavenly  thoughts  rather  than  impure  or 
vicious  ones. 

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Jesus  said  Call  no  man  your  father  on  earth,  for 
one  is  your  father  even  God.  Mary  the  mother  of 
Jesus,  in  the  fervency  of  her  heart  looked  up  to  God 
the  Father  and  implored  Him  to  give  her  a  child  that 
he  might  be  the  Savior  of  the  world.  Who  is  to  be 
saved?  Not  the  spiritual  child  of  God,  but  the  flesh- 
ly seeming  man  of  sin.  Jesus  came  in  the  flesh  and 
for  sin  was  condemned  in  the  flesh.  Jesus  being  con- 
trolled by  the  Christ  principle  reached  out  in  his 
fleshly  thought,  recognized  the  man  of  flesh  and  said 
unto  him  "Follow  me."  How?  In  right  thinking — • 
being  obedient  to  the  Christ.  So  man  is  lifted  up  out 
of  the  mire  and  clay  of  flesh  and  as  he  follows  Jesus 
he  is  lifted  higher  and  higher  into  the  Christ  mind, 
into  Heaven;  and  the  old  man  with  his  deeds  is  laid 
off  for  the  new  man,  the  Christ  renovated  man,  the 
redeemed  man.  As  this  so  called  human  is  governed 
by  the  Christ  thought  he  becomes  a  new  creature. 
Let  man  follow  the  Christ.  This  mortal  must  put  on 
immortality,  and  this  corruptible  put  on  incorrup- 
tion.  Then  death  will  be  swallowed  up  in  victory. 
Then  man  can  truly  say  O  death,  where  is  thy  sting, 
O  grave,  where  is  thy  victory?  As  man  follows 
Christ  he  lays  off  all  his  false  beliefs  in  the  flesh  and 
all  that  belongs  with  it,  sin,  sickness,  pain  and  pov- 
erty and  his  belief  in  death,  and  he  becomes  a  new 
creature  in  Christ  Jesus,  and  knows  no  Father  but 
God,  good.  O,  is  it  not  worth  striving  for?  Eternal 
bliss,  eternal  life,  eternal  happiness.  Try  it,  my 
brother,  my  sister. 

When  mortal  man  accepts  God  as  the  truth  of  be- 
ing, as  his  creator  and  follows  Him  in  spirit,  he  lays 
off  the  old  man  and  his  deeds  and  puts  on  the  new 
man,  Christ  Jesus,  who  says  "I  am  the  way,  the  truth 
and  the  life,  follow  me."  Then  as  he  follows  he  be- 
comes a  new  creature  in  Christ  Jesus. 

God,  good,  is  my  life,  God  is  my  health,  God  is 

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my  strength,  God  is  my  happiness,  God  is  my  peace, 
God  is  my  harmony,  God  is  my  joy,  God  is  my  sup- 
port, God  is  always  with  me.  God  never  forsakes 
me.  God  is  omnipotent,  omnipresent.  No  place 
where  He  is  not.  God  being  everywhere,  evil  no- 
where. That  which  can't  be  found  in  principle,  has 
no  existence. 

Nothing  so,  but  thinking  makes  it  so.  The  farmer 
has  to  think  about  how  and  when  to  plant  his  crop; 
What  soil  is  best  adapted  to  corn,  potatoes,  wheat  and 
oats;  also  when  to  plant  or  sow,  and  when  it  will  be 
ready  for  harvesting.  The  inventor  has  to  think,  and 
think  again  before  he  can  demonstrate  his  thought 
creation.  The  lawyer  must  study  and  give  much 
thought  to  his  client's  case.  The  builders  of  railroads 
have  to  plan  and  survey  for  their  track.  Mankind 
can  accomplish  nothing  without  thinking.  He  thinks 
he  does  not  feel  well.  He  wonders  what  his  ailments 
are;  finally  he  calls  in  the  doctor.  The  doctor  looks 
wise  and  thinks  it  best  to  examine  the  tongue,  the 
heart,  thinks  to  take  the  temperature  and  finally 
thinks  out  his  diagnosis  of  the  case.  He  thinks  it 
quite  a  complicated  case,  but  thinks  there  is  hope  of 
recovery.  Later  in  the  case  he  thinks  it  is  beyond 
his  control  and  thinks  best  to  call  in  council.  They 
think,  and  express  their  thoughts  with  fear  and  fill 
the  family's  minds  with  fear  and  death.  Mortal 
man's  thinking. 

God  does  not  think — He  knows.  He  knows  that 
the  man  He  created  cannot  be  sick,  suffer  and  die  as 
His  creation  is  eternal  and  knows  no  death.  He  did 
not,  nor  could  not  create  man  to  die.  He  could 
not  create  an  opposite  to  life,  unless  He  knew  both 
good  and  evil.  If  it  were  possible  He  would  be  im- 
perfect Himself  for  He  would  have  the  elements  of 
death  in  Himself.  We  have  the  assurance  of  the 
scripture  that  God  did  not  create  the  fleshly  man. 

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So  man  must  know  of  a  fact  that  he  is  spiritual  and 
not  material.  A  man  of  mind  and  not  matter. 
Therefore,  God's  man  is  a  man  of  thought  unreal  to 
the  mortal  so  called  man.  Man  cannot  be  real  and 
unreal.  2  and  2  make  4  and  not  5.  So  we  must 
conclude  that  the  spiritual  man  is  God's  creation  and 
the  fleshly  so  called  man  is  but  a  belief  of  a  man.  A 
belief  is  that  which  seems  to  be  and  is  not.  So  the 
man  of  God's  creation  cannot  be  sick  and  die  as  he 
is  immortal.  This  so  called  man  of  flesh  is  a  nega- 
tion, nothing  to  God.  Yet  he  does  seem  to  be  some- 
thing to  his  own  corrupt  thought,  material  mind. 


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TEMPER. 

A  good  even  temper  is  conducive  to  good  health. 
A  bad  temper  is  the  cause  of  much  of  the  sickness  of 
the  day.  Now,  I  speak  to  my  fellow  mortals.  Of 
the  two,  which  do  you  choose?  The  one  leads  man 
in  to  happy  congenial  thoughts  and  sends  a  glow  of 
happiness  over  and  through  his  body  and  you  see 
manifested  on  his  face  a  look  of  peace  and  joy,  that 
many  times  will  hold  you  spellbound;  and  you  long 
for  the  like  yourself.  It  is  yours  for  the  taking. 
Keep  the  side  of  an  even  happy  nature  and  not  the 
opposite,  (bad  temper). 

When  material  man  is  quick  to  anger,  full  of 
venom,  and  without  restraint  he  gives  way  to  the 
paroxysms  of  temper.  We  see  upon  his  face  the  ex- 
act opposite  to  the  expression  of  the  self  controlled 
man.  Bad  temper  is  anger,  malice,  hate,  revenge, 
fear,  and  is  the  cause  of  many  deaths,  and  of  many 
of  the  so  called  ailments  of  the  day.  How  are  you  to 
curb  this  temper?  Just  as  the  driver  prevents  the 
loaded  wagon  from  rolling  upon  his  team,  as  they  go 
down  a  steep  grade — apply  the  brake  in  time.  Don't 
wait  till  you  are  too  far  down  the  grade.  Just  curb 
this  evil  temper  before  it  gets  beyond  control;  you 
say  I  will  give  a  piece  of  my  mind  to  this  man,  who 
has  annoyed  or  injured  me.  It  will  be  like  pouring 
water  on  a  duck's  back.  If  they  are  good  natured 
they  laugh  at  you.  If  like  you  they  are  full  of 
venom,  they  fight  back  and  trouble  follows  trouble. 
Remember  "an  ounce  of  prevention  is  worth  a  pound 
of  cure."  To  vent  your  spite  is  only  time  lost,  and 
you  alone  are  the  real  sufferer.  O  mortal  be  warned! 
Think  twice  ere  you  act  once.  Keep  a  bridle  on 
your  unruly  tongue.  Think  no  evil,  do  no  evil,  and 
no  evil  will  be  created.  Mankind  is  the  sole  creator 

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of  evil.  So  as  light  destroys  darkness,  so  a  good 
cheerful  disposition,  showing  love  to  all,  will  destroy 
malice.  Love  your  neighbor  as  yourself,  and  the 
Lord  thy  God  with  all  thy  heart. 


GOOD  AND  EVIL. 

Does  good  and  evil  exist?  If  so  man  Would  be 
double  minded  and  the  Bible  declares  that  a  double 
minded  man  is  unstable.  Could  this  perfect  God 
create  a  perfect  man,  male  and  female,  like  Himself 
and  at  the  same  time  create  an  imperfect  man?  If 
He  could  entertain  thoughts  of  imperfection  He 
would  not  be  perfect  Himself.  Could  He  create  a 
healthy  man,  and  not  protect  him  in  his  health,  He 
would  not  be  good  and  all  powerful.  We  must  dis- 
sect our  carnal  thoughts  and  discern  the  truth. 


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GREAT  AND  ONLY  FIRST  CAUSE. 

It  is  admitted  that  there  must  be  a  great  and  only- 
first  cause  and  that  cause  is  found  in  a  great  prin- 
ciple called  Divine  Principle,  Spirit,  Mind,  God, 
Good  and  it  is  admitted  by  mankind  that  only  good 
can  proceed  from  this  cause.  Pray  tell  me  where  the 
so  called  evil  originated.  It  could  not  originate  in 
the  mind  of  God,  He  being  the  embodiment  of  good. 
It  would  be  impossible  for  absolute  good  to  be  the 
father  of  evil.  Evil  is  good's  opposite.  Man  is  of 
God's  creating.  Male  and  female  created  He  them  in 
His  own  image  and  likeness.  Man  possessing  a  car- 
nal mind  is  not  God's  creation  for  the  carnal  mind 
is  at  enmity  to  God,  and  not  subject  to  His  laws. 
Can  it  be  possible  that  God,  the  eternal  all  wise  cre- 
ator, could  create  this  carnal  mind  which  the  scrip- 
tures declare  is  at  enmity  to  Him?  Could  God  create 
both  in  us?  The  letter  killeth  but  the  spirit  giveth 
life.  Life's  absence  is  death.  Let  mankind  keep 
their  mind  on  health  and  harmony  and  it  will  not  be 
controlled  by  the  opposite,  ill  health,  inharrnony. 
Both  can't  be  found  at  the  same  time  in  one  place. 
Let  us  cast  our  net,  (our  thoughts)  on  the  right  side 
as  good  obedient  fishermen.  Fear  is  not  good,  neither 
is  a  belief  in  death.  Sickness,  sin  and  death  are  a 
creation  of  the  carnal  mind,  God's  enemy.  Health, 
harmony  and  all  good  are  of  God's  creation,  good. 
Fear,  doubt,  anxiety  and  all  false  beliefs  of  life  in 
matter  is  the  cause  of  all  our  beliefs  of  sickness,  sin 
and  death.  It  is  certain  that  the  man  of  God's  crea- 
tion cannot  suffer  and  die.  He  reflects  eternal  life 
from  God  who  is  life.  God  imparts  life  to  His  ideas. 
Seek  and  ye  shall  find;  Knock  and  it  shall  open  unto 
you.  Jesus  came  to  bring  life  and  immortality  to 
light  through  the  gospel.  It  was  always  here,  but 
not  discernible  till  Jesus'  advent  in  the  flesh.  Seek 
it,  find  it  through  Christ  Jesus. 

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COME  LET  US  REASON  TOGETHER. 

God  is  Mind,  Divine  Principle,  Omniscient,  Omnip- 
otent, Omnipresent.  He  is  all  there  is:  the  only 
cause,  the  only  creator.  He  creates  good  only,  un- 
derstanding the  absolute  Allness  of  God,  and  His 
presence  everywhere,  evil  is  without  creator  or  place, 
a  non-entity.  God's  created  man  cannot  be  sick,  suf- 
fer and  die,  and  as  there  is  no  other  man  sin  and 
suffering  cannot  be  a  reality — understand,  a  reality 
to  God's  good.  But  sin  and  sickness  in  the  seeming 
is  a  reality  to  the  inharmonious  mortal  man.  Now 
it  is  up  to  mankind  to  make  his  choice.  Separate 
the  wheat  from  the  chaff.  Cast  your  net,  your 
thoughts,  on  the  right  side  of  the  ship  and  receive 
only  good. 

God's  man  is  not  a  receptacle  for  evil. 


GOD'S  OPPOSITE  NOT  A  REALITY. 

Mankind  has  to  learn  that  God,  good,  is  the  only 
reality.  God  being  all  that  exists,  His  opposite,  so 
called  evil,  error,  sin,  sickness,  pain,  fear,  death,  are 
negations,  consequently  unrecognized  by  God,  Spirit, 
and  must  also  be  ignored  by  the  so  called  man  of  the 
flesh.  When  mortal  man  wakes  up  to  this  infinite 
God's  truth,  he  will  then  wake  up  out  of  this  dream 
of  life  in  matter,  and  see  God  as  all  in  all  and  error 
as  false;  and  he  will  lay  off  the  old  man  with  his 
falsities  and  accept  the  truth,  health  and  happiness 
and  realize  that  it  proceeds  from  the  only  Power. 

T-\:~^.  V"  T-T;I-*  find  the  kingdom  of  heaven  within 
his  own  consciousness. 

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CARNAL  MIND. 

This  carnal  mind  attempts  to  govern  the  body,  but 
it  seems  to  make  bad  work  of  it.  One  time  good, 
many  times  bad.  Because  as  the  scripture  tells  us,  it 
is  at  enmity  to  God;  for  to  be  carnally  minded  is 
death,  but  to  be  spiritually  minded  is  life  and  peace. 
This  carnal  mind  manifests  both  good  and  evil.  Now 
let  in  the  mind  of  God,  good  only  and  evil  will  dis- 
appear like  the  darkness,  when  light  fills  all  space. 
O,  let  in  the  light  of  Divine  Love  which  knows  no 
evil,  sickness  or  death. 

So  long  as  the  light  of  Truth  is  shining  within 
you,  there  can  be  no  darkness,  no  sin,  evil  or  pain. 
Just  live  in  the  atmosphere  of  Love.  As  the  running 
water  purifies  itself,  so  the  truth  Love  will  purify  the 
thoughts  of  mortal  man,  and  evil  will  flee  before 
him,  as  the  darkness  flees  before  the  light.  Drink 
from  the  fountain  of  Love,  and  you  will  never,  never 
thirst  for  anything  but  more  Love.  O,  mortal  man, 
just  know  that  you  do  not  exist  in  the  flesh  as  God's 
idea  for  God's  man  is  spiritual;  and  as  a  creation  of 
mind,  is  perfect,  and  can  never  manifest  evil. 

The  sun  seems  to  move  but  does  not.  So  evil, 
sickness,  pain  and  death,  seem  to  be  real  but  are  not. 
The  earth  seems  to  stand  still,  yet  it  moves  rapidly. 
It  seems  to  be  flat,  yet  it  is  round.  Man's  seemings 
are  unreal. 


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HOW  DID  EVIL  ORIGINATE? 

The  question  is  often  asked,  how  did  evil  orig- 
inate? Answer:  Just  as  a  lie  originated.  Was  a  lie 
ever  a  truth?  No.  Was  a  truth  ever  a  lie?  No. 
Now  ask  yourself  this:  do  you  prefer  to  believe  the 
lie  or  the  truth?  You  say,  the  truth.  As  the  truth 
is  all  there  is,  there  is  nothing  but  the  truth,  then 
the  lie  is  the  negation,  nothing.  What  are  we  to  do 
with  it?  Just  see  it  for  what  it  is,  nothing  but  a  lie; 
cast  it  out  of  mind,  and  accept  the  truth  as  a  truth, 
as  all  there  is.  But,  you  say,  if  all  God  created  is 
good,  whence  cometh  the  evil?  Evil  seems  to  be  all 
about  us,  Well  said.  Seems  to  be,  seeming  is  all  there 
is  of  evil.  It  is  never  real.  Reality  is  only  real,  and 
reality  is  God's  creation.  God  and  His  idea  is  all 
there  is.  The  only  existing  things  are  what  God  cre- 
ated good,  and  as  evil  is  admitted  not  to  be  good,  it 
cannot  be  God's  creation.  Then  see  it  for  what  it  is, 
nothing  but  a  belief.  This  morning  to  the  seeming, 
the  sun  is  not  shining.  Is  that  true?  Yes,  to  my 
material  sense.  But  in  reality,  the  sun  is  ever  shin- 
ing whether  clouds  hide  his  face  or  us.  Are  the  true 
senses  of  God's  man  material  or  spiritual?  God  is  a 
spirit  and  man  is  His  image  and  likeness,  spiritual. 
Then  if  God  be  true  man  cannot  be  material,  conse- 
quently this  fleshly  material  man  is  not  of  God's  cre- 
ation. What  is  he  but  a  lie?  Was  there  ever  a  time 
that  the  sun  did  not  shine?  No.  No  matter  how 
dark  the  clouds  may  appear  to  be,  and  to  the  so 
called  mortal  sense  obstruct  its  view,  yet  back  of 
these  clouds  he  ever  shines.  Then  to  say  the  sun  is 
not  shining  would  be  false.  So  if  the  mortal  sense 
testimony  cannot  see  God  and  His  true  creation  in 
spirit,  mind,  but  sees  it  in  error,  flesh,  is  it  true? 
No.  For  God  could  not  create  anything  unlike  Him- 

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self,  good.  God  is  eternal  life  and  cannot  die,  and 
man  admits  that  in  his  flesh  he  can  die.  Can  we  har- 
monize these  antagonistic  statements?  No.  Can  both 
be  true?  Can  God  be  good,  immortality  good  and 
create  both  good  and  evil?  No.  Can  the  immortal 
child  of  God  sicken  and  die?  No.  Ask  yourself  this 
question.  If  the  mathematical  problems  are  correct- 
ly solved  what  do  we  get  as  result?  Correct  answer. 
If  incorrectly  solved,  an  incorrect  answer.  Is  the  in- 
correct solution  found  in  the  principles  of  mathe- 
matics? You  will  say  no.  Is  God's  eternally  perfect 
creation  true?  Yes.  Then  HIS  so  called  opposite, 
error,  devil,  sin,  sickness  and  death  are  untrue,  be- 
cause not  found  in  the  principle  of  God,  good.  God 
created  good  only  and  cannot  be  the  father  of  evil 
or  anything  that  has  the  taint  of  evil  in  it. 

The  fleshly  man  filled  with  thoughts  tainted  with 
evil  is  untrue,  and  is  not  found  in  the  mind  of  God. 
Evil  has  no  creator  as  there  is  but  one  creator  even 
God. 

Our  mistakes  originated  when  man  failed  to  ac- 
knowledge God  as  the  only  creator,  and  his  creation 
good.  Evil  cannot  be  found  in  good,  or  good  in  evil. 
Good  is,  evil  is  not.  In  God.  good,  evil  cannot  be 
found.  In  man,  as  God  created  him,  evil  is  not;  and 
as  God  is  omnipotent,  omnipresent  there  is  no  place 
for  evil.  Evil  is  good  perverted.  A  lie  is  the  truth 
perverted.  Let  God  be  true  and  every  man  a  liar, 
said  Jesus.  Jesus  perceived  the  evil  in  the  thoughts 
of  the  Pharisees  and  rebuked  it.  So  mankind  must 
rebuke  every  ungodlike  thought;  every  thought  of 
sin,  sickness,  pain,  fear,  death,  and  place  in  their 
stead  harmony,  health,  love,  joy,  peace  and  eternal 
life.  God  has  no  fellowship  with  evil.  He  has  noth- 
ing to  do  with  erroneous  counterfeit  things  of  the  so 
called  sinning  dying  mortal  man.  Heaven  is  where 
God  is.  God  is  everywhere.  Hell,  Heaven's  oppo- 
site, has  no  abiding  place. 

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The  man  of  God's  creation  is  in  Heaven,  for  he  is 
in  the  mind  of  God.  Jesus  came  to  show  the  sinning 
dying  man  how  to  get  out  of  his  hell  like  condition 
into  the  kingdom  of  heaven.  He  said  "Follow  me." 
Entertain  thoughts  of  love.  Love  your  neighbor  as 
yourself.  Love  is  the  entering  wedge  to  Heaven. 
Love  is  Heaven.  Let  us  be  followers  of  the  love  of 
Christ  Jesus. 


OBEDIENCE  TO  CHRIST  JESUS. 

Our  life  problems  are  all  products  of  thought. 
We  prosper  thro'  obedience,  never  thro'  disobedi- 
ence. Man  must  know  that  he  is  the  child  of  God  and 
perfect.  The  Infinite  could  not  create  him  otherwise. 
There  is  no  power  outside  of  Divine  Principle,  and 
God's  creation  cannot  be  sick,  suffer  and  die.  Man 
should  be  governed  by  Divine  Principle,  not  mortal 
mind.  Know  the  Truth.  Matter  has  no  existence 
outside  of  God.  Can  a  mistake  ever  be  found  in  the 
Principle,  or  is  it  any  part  of  Principle?  No,  a  mis- 
take is  simply  a  lie,  and  a  lie  is  no  part  of  Truth. 
Nor  is  sickness,  sin  and  death  any  part  of  God  or 
God's  man.  God  is  perfect. 

You  plant  a  garden.  You  select  good  seed,  and 
after  a  time  when  the  plants  appear  you  find  among 
them  many  weeds.  Did  you  plant  weeds?  No.  How 
do  you  account  for  them?  They  just  appeared.  So 
sickness,  pain  and  death  have  no  creation  in  Truth. 
The  weeds  have  to  be  hoed  out.  The  lie  has  to  be 
destroyed  by  the  Truth.  Be  obedient  to  the  Infinite 
Power  and  cultivate  only  God's  good  plants. 


CAN  WE  BECOME  SICK  AND  DIE? 

Can  the  man  of  God's  creation  become  sick  and 
die?  No,  not  if  God  is  eternal  life.  Is  He,  or  is  He 
not?  God  is  eternal  life  and  He  is  man's  life.  Does 
the  so  called  fleshly  or  carnal  man  possess  eternal 
life?  No,  the  child  of  flesh  is  not  the  child  of  God. 
God  is  spirit  and  His  child  is  spiritual,  not  carnal. 
Jesus  did  not  take  on  sinful  flesh,  and  be  condemned 
in  the  flesh  to  save  spiritual  man,  who  is  already 
saved,  but  to  save  the  so  called  man  of  flesh  and  He 
said  unto  them,  follow  me.  Jesus  followed  the 
Christ,  and  mankind  follows  Jesus.  By  so  doing  we 
lav  off  the  old  man,  for  the  renewed  man,  the  man 
who  follows  Christ  Jesus  and  does  His  bidding.  This 
mortal  must  put  on  immortality,  and  this  corruptible 
put  on  incorruption.  Then  is  death  swallowed  up  in 
victory.  By  our  obedience  to  Christ  Jesus'  teaching, 
no  other  way.  No  other  door  to  the  kingdom  of 
Heaven. 

When  man  learns  that  the  dark  clouds  obstruct  the 
sun's  light,  but  that  the  sun  is  shining  all  the  time, 
he  will  learn  to  not  let  the  dark,  sick  bad  thoughts 
of  materiality  obstruct  his  view  of  health  and  happi- 
ness. Heaven.  O  Mortal,  wake  up  and  live. 

All  that  God  created  expresses  activity.  His  crea- 
tion is  ever  active  and  all  organs  of  our  bodies  are 
ever  active  in  Mind.  Can  inactivity  be  found  in 
activity? 

When  the  dark,  cold,  damp,  disagreeable  weather 
disappears,  what  is  left?  Nothing  but  sunshine,  good 
weather.  When  our  dark,  dreary,  evil,  unhappy 
thoughts  are  destroyed  from  our  consciousness,  what 
is  left,  but  health,  harmony,  love,  joy  and  the  peace 
that  passeth  all  understanding? 

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GOD'S  LAW. 

Know  ye  not,  brethren  (for  I  speak  to  them  that 
know  the  law)  how  that  the  law  hath  dominion  over 
a  man  as  long  as  he  lives. 

For  when  we  were  in  the  flesh,  the  motions  of  sin, 
which  were  by  the  law,  did  work  in  our  members  to 
bring  forth  fruits  unto  death. 

But  now  we  are  delivered  from  the  law,  that  being 
dead  wherein  we  were  held;  that  we  should  serve  in 
newness  of  spirit  and  not  in  the  oldness  of  the  letter. 
Rom.  7  1-5-6-7-8-9. 

SP.  EXP.  Mortal  man  must  keep  the  laws  of  our 
land  in  order  to  prepare  him  to  obey  the  laws  of 
Divine  Principle,  God.  Our  fleshly  thoughts  are  the 
father  of  evil  desires  in  the  flesh  and  can  be  brought 
under  subjection  by  obedience  to  the  Christ  teach- 
ing, keep  the  commandments.  Mankind  seems  to 
lose  sight  of  life  as  in  and  of  God,  and  seems  to  con- 
sider himself  as  a  creator.  He  loses  sight  of  the 
knowledge  that  Divine  Principle  is  the  only  creator. 
When  Christ  Jesus  appeared  as  our  redeemer  to  show 
mortal  man  the  way  out  of  all  false  beliefs,  and 
taught  him  that  all  life  is  in  God,  He  wished  us  to 
accept  the  truth  to  become  God's  children  spiritually 
and  to  lay  off  the  old  man  with  his  deeds,  and  put  on 
the  new  man  (Man  renewed).  What  shall  we  say 
then?  Is  the  law  sin?  God  forbid.  "Nay,  I  had 
not  known  sin  but  by  the  law.  For  I  had  not  known 
lust  except  the  law  had  said,  Thou  shalt  not  covet. " 
But  sin,  taking  occasion  by  the  commandments 
wrought  in  me  all  manner  of  concupiescence,  For 
without  the  law  sin  was  dead. 

For  I  was  alive  within  the  law  once,  but  when  the 
commandments  came,  sin  revived  and  I  died. 

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SP.  EXP.  Where  there  was  no  laiv,  mankind 
claimed  his  freedom  to  do  as  he  pleased.  There  was 
no  restraint,  no  compulsion  toward  right.  He  is  a 
free  moral  agent,  to  do  good  or  evil  as  he  wills. 
There  was  no  sin  until  the  commandments  of  God 
came  in  force.  Then  mankind  lost  his  freedom  and 
if  disobedient  to  the  law,  he  is  punished.  If  his  sin 
was  evil  thinking,  sickness,  sin,  poverty,  pain  and 
death  was  the  penalty.  Jesus  came  to  the  world 
through  the  pure  thoughts  of  Mary,  His  mother,  and 
He  was  governed  by  the  pure  Christ  thoughts,  and 
became  the  Savior  of  the  world.  It  is  through  love 
and  obedience  that  man  comes  to  the  realization  of 
the  truth  of  being,  that  all  life  is  in  and  of  God. 
There  is  no  other  way.  Then  we  have  the  kingdom 
of  heaven  within  us.  Then  we  are  conscious  of  noth- 
ing but  good.  Evil  is  extinct  to  us. 


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PURITY  OF  THOUGHT. 

John  6-63.  It  is  the  spirit  that  quickeneth,  the 
flesh  profiteth  nothing. 

Psalm  51-1.  Have  mercy  upon  me  O  God  accord- 
ing to  thy  loving  kindness,  according  unto  the  mul- 
titude of  thy  tender  mercies  blot  out  my  transgres- 
sions. 

SP.  EXP.  God  is  always  merciful  unto  man,  when 
man  is  obedient  to  the  commands  of  Divine  Love,  and 
manifests  it  by  walking  in  the  paths  of  Truth,  by 
manifesting  love,  not  hate,  good,  not  evil,  health,  not 
sickness,  happiness,  not  despair,  and  by  cleansing  or 
correcting  these  so  called  material  thoughts.  By 
knowing  God,  as  Spirit,  Mind,  the  only  Creator  and 
HIS  Creation,  immortal,  perfect,  never  found  in  the 
material  man. 

Psalms  51-2.  Wash  me  thoroughly  from  mine 
iniquities  and  cleanse  me  from  my  sin. 

SP.  EXP.  When  the  so  called  mortal  man  awak- 
ens, and  accepts  the  truth  of  man9s  spiritual  exist- 
ense  and  manifests  it  in  his  daily  life,  he  is  washed 
of  his  material  belief  in  sin. 

Psalms  51-2.  For  I  acknowledge  my  transgression, 
and  my  sin  is  ever  before  me. 

SP.  EXP.  When  the  so  called  material  man 
awakes  to  the  truth  of  being  so  that  he  sees  he  is  a 
transgressor  of  the  law  of  God,  good,  and  is  a  sinner 
and  he  is  desirous  of  knowing  a  better  way  or  a  way 
out  of  a  belief  in  sin  and  death,  let  him  look  to  Jesus 
who  said:  I  am  the  way,  the  truth  and  the  life. 
Follow  thou  me. 

Psalms  51-10  is  an  answer  to  the  above.    Create  in 
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me  a  clean  heart  0  God  and  renew  a  right  spirit 
within  me. 

SP.  EXP.  This  means  to  purify  our  material 
minds  and  to  think  and  see  no  evil.  All  is  mind,  all 
is  God  and  God  is  All  good. 


ASK  YOURSELF  THESE  QUESTIONS. 

Has  God  an  opposite  called  Devil? 

Has  good  an  opposite  called  evil? 

Has  right  an  opposite  called  wrong? 

Has  health  an  opposite  called  sickness? 

Has  happiness  an  opposite  called  despair? 

Has  Spirit  an  opposite  found  in  mortal  man? 

Can  good  be  created  and  evil  exist  in  it?  If  God 
is  good,  evil,  His  opposite,  can't  be.  Can  man  bring 
harmony  out  of  both  good  and  evil? 

Ask  yourself  which  exists. 

Health  or  sickness? 

Right  or  wrong? 

Life  or  death? 

Heaven  or  hell? 

If  we  admit  that  God,  good,  is  all  in  all,  we  must 
then  admit  that  evil  has  no  existence. 

Man  must  make  his  choice,  which  will  it  be? 

He  chooses  that  which  produces  health  and  eternal 

««**« /• 

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CONDEMNATION. 

Condemn  no  man.  Let  us  think  twice  before  we 
speak  once.  Always  let  our  thoughts  be  of  good. 
Good  thoughts  are  the  only  thoughts.  Evil  does  not 
exist  as  a  reality.  There  are  no  evil  thoughts  in 
reality.  Condemn  no  man,  Listen  not  to  gossip.  If 
you  have  a  grievance  against  a  brother,  get  face  to 
face  and  reason  together.  Let  love  rule,  and  anger 
will  vanish.  There  are  always  two  sides  to  a  story. 
It  takes  two  to  make  a  quarrel. 

They  that  are  of  the  flesh  cannot  do  the  works  of 
the  spirit;  neither  they  that  are  of  the  spirit  the 
works  of  the  flesh.  Eph.  2-9. 

SP.  EXP.  While  ive  see  ourselves  as  of  the  flesh, 
we  cannot  see  ourselves  as  GoeFs  child,,  spiritual; 
therefore  tve  fail  to  do  our  spiritual  work,  separate 
the  good  from  the  evil,  the  wheat  from  the  chaff. 
The  thrasher  saves  the  wheat  and  not  the  chaff. 

Let  no  one  look  upon  his  neighbor  after  the  flesh; 
but  do  all  mutually  love  each  other  in  Jesus  Christ. 

SP.  EXP.  We  must  abandon  the  thought  of  Jesus 
as  Christ  and  also  that  of  the  fleshly  man  as  the 
child  of  God.  Jesus  was  the  son  of  Mary,  and  the 
Christ  principle  was  God  in  the  man  Jesus.  As  Jesus 
was  controlled  by  the  Christ  principle  so  mortal  man 
must  be  controlled  by  the  same  principle.  And  if 
obedient  to  this  principle,  health,  harmony,  peace, 
joy  are  the  result,  and  if  disobedient,  the  opposite. 

Fear  God,  and  keep  his  commandments.  For  if 
thou  keepest  his  commandments  thou  shalt  be  pow- 
erful in  every  work,  and  all  thy  works  shall  be  ex- 
cellent. For  by  fearing  God  thou  shalt  do  every 
thing  well.  2  Hermos  Com.  7-1. 

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SP.  EXP.  God  is  in  his  law  and  man  must  fear  to 
be  disobedient  to  His  Law.  Materially  we  do  not 
fear  the  man  or  men  who  make  our  material  laws, 
but  we  do  fear  to  violate  the  laws  they  have  made. 
We  cause  our  own  suffering  by  our  violation  of  these 
laws.  Let  it  be  the  law  of  mortal  man  or  of  God. 
Nothing  but  good  is  found  in  God's  laws.  Its  oppo- 
site, evil,  is  no  part  of  Good,  (nothing)  Let  man 
fear  to  take  the  name  of  God  in  vain  or  to  claim  the 
fleshly  man  as  GocFs  creation.  God  is  spirit,  Mind 
and  His  man  is  Spiritual.  Man  must  have  the  mind 
of  God  to  be  like  Him.  The  fleshly  man  has  a  dou- 
ble mind,  materially  good,  also  bad.  This  being  so 
he  cannot  be  Gotfs  image  and  likeness.  The  spir- 
itual man  is  never  sick  and  knows  no  evil.  The  so 
called  material  man  does  know  evil  and  death,  not 
in  reality,  but  in  seeming  and  what  is  a  seeming? 
That  which  seems  to  be  and  is  not.  So  man  in  the 
flesh  is  nothing. 

But  fear  not  the  devil:  for  if  thou  feareth  the 
Lord,  thou  shalt  have  dominion  over  him;  because 
there  is  no  power  in  him.  Her.  Com.  v.  7. 


IS  THERE  SIN? 

I  cannot  close  this  little  book  without  saying  a  few 
words  on  the  line  of  sin  or  no  sin. 

It  is  said  by  thousands  of  mortals  that  Christian 
Scientists  say  there  is  no  sin.  If  this  is  true  we  can 
sin  all  we  like  and  not  be  punished.  (Don't  make 
that  mistake).  A  Christian  Scientist  who  makes  that 
statement  will  qualify  his  or  her  statement  and  will 
explain  what  they  mean  by  it.  To  God  there  is  no 
sin.  God  did  not  create  sin,  nor  a  man  who  could 
sin.  God  made  man  spiritual,  as  God  is  spirit;  and 
God  is  of  too  pure  eyes  to  behold  sin,  too  pure 
thoughts  to  create  sin  or  a  sinnerr  God's  creation  is 
perfect,  is  eternal.  In  Ecc'ts  3-14  we  read  these 
words:  "I  Know  that  whatsoever  God  doeth  it  shall 
be  forever,  nothing  can  be  put  to  it,  nor  anything 
taken  from  it."  Did  God  create  man  to  live  for- 
ever, or  did  He  create  him  a  sinner  and  dedicate  him 
to  death?  Remember  the  definition  of  death  is  the 
extinction  of  life.  Scripture  says  God  is  our  life  and 
life  is  eternal.  So  God  is  eternal  and  His  idea,  man 
reflects  life  eternal.  How  can  man,  male  and  female, 
be  God's  likeness  unless  he  expresses  life  eternal? 
The  mortal  sinning  man  does  not  express  nor  reflect 
it.  Then  he  is  not  God's  likeness  and  God  could 
not  have  created  His  unlikeness  a  sinner.  So  to  God, 
sin  does  not  exist.  But  to  this  so  called  carnal  mind- 
ed man  who  believes  in  sin,  sin  does  exist  to  his 
mortal  sense,  and  is  only  too  real;  and  if  he  bucks 
up  against  it,  he  says  he  proves  its  truthfulness.  To 
his  own  material  sense  he  does:  but  is  it  true?  God 
the  only  creator  who  created  all  good  could  not  cre- 
ate a  man  to  do  evil.  This  mortal  fleshly  man  is 
likened  unto  a  counterfeit  dollar.  It  is  called  a  dol- 
lar. Is  it?  No.  Why?  For  the  mint  alone  is  the 

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creator  of  a  good  dollar,  and  this  counterfeit  a  fac- 
simile of  the  real,  is  accepted  generally  as  good,  but 
it  is  not.  Neither  is  the  so  called  material  man  the 
real  man,  he  is  the  fleshly  man  and  a  sinner  and 
God's  creation  is  spiritual  and  pure.  The  fleshly 
man  is  good  perverted  a  counterfeit;  like  the  bad 
dollar,  a  good  dollar  counterfeited. 

Now  go  on  and  think  there  is  no  sin,  commit  what 
is  termed  a  crime,  run  up  against  the  law  of  mortal 
man,  and  suffer  the  consequences  of  wrong  doing. 
Whence  comes  the  suffering,  where  does  it  originate 
but  in  the  consciousness  of  mortal  man?  He  is  con- 
scious of  sin,  and  he  is  conscious  of  sickness  and 
death.  The  true  understanding  of  man's  existence 
is  in  and  of  God.  He  has  eternal  life.  Life  knows 
no  death. 

Wake  up,  my  brother,  my  sister  and  put  off  the 
old  man  with  his  deeds,  for  the  true  man  of  God's 
creation. 

Before  closing  my  writings  I  wish  to  say  that  my 
understanding  of  the  scriptures  was  brought  about 
by  my  wife's  healing  in  Christian  Science,  some  24 
years  since,  and  she  has  remained  practically  well 
since  excepting  a  few  minor  claims  which  were  met 
and  healed  through  the  understanding  of  the  Truth 
as  revealed  in  Mrs.  Eddy's  book,  "Science  and  Health 
with  Key  to  the  Scriptures." 

About  18  years  ago  I  was  led  to  make  a  study  of 
Mrs.  Eddy's  book,  Science  and  Health,  in  connec- 
tion with  my  Bible,  and  received  help  from  prac- 
titioners, but  not  a  cure.  When  I  earnestly  took  up 
Science  and  Health  and  a  perusal  of  Christian  Sci- 
ence literature  and  attended  Sunday  and  midweek 
services,  I  began  gradually  to  improve. 

My  claims  were  Rheumatism  from  the  bottoms  of 
my  feet  to  my  ears,  Catarrh  and  Bronchial  disorders, 
Kidney,  Liver  trouble  and  many  other  disorders,  or 

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claims.  I  was  a  great  sufferer  for  30  years  and  had 
treatment  from  Doctors  of  note,  all  of  whom  I  be- 
lieve were  honest,  and  tried  to  do  all  possible  for 
me.  They  advised  change  of  climate.  I  acceded 
with  good  result  for  a  time.  But  would  always  fall 
back  into  the  old  groove  again.  Finally,  I  yielded  to 
the  advice  of  my  wife,  and  of  friends  and  accepted 
the  Truth,  and  was  health.  I  have  now  been  in  the 
enjoyment  of  health  for  about  17  years. 

Thank  God,  and  Mrs.  Eddy  for  opening  man's  eyes 
to  the  light  of  truth. 


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Miscellaneous  Truths 


When  mankind  is  ruled  or  governed  by  the  great 
Principle  of  Good,  Divine  Love,  he  will  cast  his  net 
on  the  right  side,  as  the  Master  counseled  the  fisher- 
men to  do.  The  fishermen  were  obedient  and  the 
net  was  filled.  Let  mankind  be  obedient,  and  his 
heart  will  be  so  filled  with  Love  that  he  can't  think 
of  evil,  or  entertain  hate,  malice,  envy,  jealousy,  sick- 
ness, sin  and  death  or  evil  of  any  name.  Happiness, 
happiness,  happiness!  Our  daily  life  will  be  filled 
with  joy.  We  will  ever  live,  and  not  seem  to  die, 
Live  to  do  good  and  never  evil.  To  think  good,  and 
not  evil.  Evil  is  that  evil  thinketh.  Good  is  that 
good  thinketh.  You  must  hold  thoughts  of  harmony. 

ONLY  POWER. 

Man  must  learn  that  God  is  the  only  life.  God  is 
eternal.  Life  is  eternal.  Mortal  man  says  We 
can  be  sick  and  die.  He  is  not  authority.  God  is 
authority. 

RIGHT  THINKING. 

Man  when  building  a  good  structure  wants  a  good 
foundation,  not  quicksand.  So  mankind  must  be 
governed  by  good  healthy  thinking,  not  its  oppo- 
site, unhealthy  thoughts.  God  is  our  health,  Jesus 
said  "Follow  me."  He  will  not  give  us  pain  for 
health,  but  good  for  evil. 

The  scriptures  declare  The  Lord  He  is  God  (good) 
there  is  none  else  beside  him. 

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WRONG  THINKING. 

Mankind  takes  the  wrong  medicine,  applies  the 
wrong  thoughts  when  he  thinks  he  is  sick.  Take  the 
opposite.  Declare  the  truth,  I  am  well.  God  made 
me  perfect.  No  power  can  take  my  perfection  from 
me,  nor  cause  me  to  be  sick  and  die.  God  is  all 
powerful  and  I  am  his  child. 

MIND. 

God  has  created  man  with  a  mind  which  knows  no 
evil.  Evil  ever  seems  to  have  perverted  it,  and  man- 
kind has  accepted  the  perverted  mind  as  the  Truth, 
and  suffers  through  the  effects.  When  mankind  is 
willing  to  be  ruled  by  the  mind  of  God,  obey  the  Di- 
vine Principle  of  Good,  sickness,  sin,  and  death  will 
be  no  more,  and  we  will  live  in  the  kingdom  of 
Heaven.  Heaven  will  be  within  us;  that  is  within 
our  consciousness.  Mortal  says  he  believes  the  scrip- 
ture; but  he  only  believes  what  suits  him,  more  times 
error  than  truth. 

HOW  TO  ALLAY  PAIN  AND  ALL 
DISEASE. 

To  get  rid  of  pain  man  must  look  to  the  Divine 
Mind  to  quiet  and  subdue  the  mortal  carnal  mind. 
Love  destroys  hate,  and  good  destroys  evil.  If  sick 
or  in  pain,  apply  to  the  mortal  mind  good  healthy, 
loving  thoughts.  As  our  bodies  are  governed  by 
mortal  thoughts,  let  the  mortal  thoughts  be  gov- 
erned by  the  higher  loving  God  thoughts;  and  peace 
and  harmony  will  be  the  result.  God's  thoughts  de- 
stroy evil  ones,  as  the  truth  destroys  a  lie. 

We  stop  our  automobile  by  shutting  off  the  power 
and  applying  the  brakes.  Shut  off  the  mortal  belief 
of  life  in  matter  and  apply  the  Truth.  All  life  is  in 
mind,  God. 

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CAUSE  OF  SICKNESS. 

Selfishness,  jealousy,  doubt,  fear,  malice,  revenge, 
hate,  pride,  conceit,  bigotry,  self-will,  hypocrisy, 
irritability,  vanity,  cowardice,  cruelty,  avarice,  dis- 
honesty, injustice,  human  will,  poverty,  pain,  etc., 
are  man's  worst  enemies.  How  are  they  to  be  put 
out?  By  cultivating  love. 

THE  FATHE&.;'V.     0V 

The  master  saith  No  man  eometfy  upto  the  Father 
but  by  me.  Who  is  the  Father?  The  Bivm-  P.-io- 
ciple  of  being,  Christ.  He  says  I  am  the  way.  His 
way  is  found  in  the  uplifting  thought,  not  in  .debased 
thought.  It  is  said  "Up  in  Heven,"  "Down  to  Hell." 
Let  man  cherish  happy  loving  thoughts,  and  be  al- 
ways lifted  heavenward. 

IMAGE  AND  LIKENESS. 

Can  man  be  God's  image  and  likeness  and  com- 
mit all  kinds  of  evil?  Can  he  drink,  carouse,  be 
sick,  use  tobacco?  Can  a  man  go  about  with  a  pipe 
or  cigarette  in  his  mouth,  and  call  himself  the  im- 
age and  likeness  of  God?  If  so,"  God  must  be  as  bad 
and  vile  as  that  which  we  call  His  creation.  Then 
those  who  do  practice  these  evil  devices  cannot  be  His 
image  and  likeness.  No,  my  brother,  my  sister,  we 
are  like  Him  only  when  we  hold  thoughts  of  good, 
and  love,  and  crush  all  evil  under  our  feet.  See  no 
evil,  hear  no  evil,  speak  no  evil,  like  the  three  wise 
Japanese  monkeys.  Instead  have  a  heart  overflow- 
ing with  love  for  our  fellowman.  Put  down  all  jeal- 
ousy, selfishness,  malice,  hate,  revenge,  and  know 
nothing  but  good,  love.  Mankind  strays  away  from 
the  principles  of  right  and  takes  up  its  so  called 
opposite,  and  suffers  in  thought  by  so  doing.  Face 
about  and  do  the  right,  and  wrong  will  vanish  like 
the  dew  before  the  sun. 

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GOD  NOT  THE  CREATOR  OF  SIN 
AND  DEATH. 

Could  the  Divine  Principle,  God,  ever  make  a  mis- 
take and  create  evil,  sin,  and  death?  No,  God,  good, 
is  all  there  is,  and  He  is  omnipotent  and  ornnipres- 
ept. .  No  place  where  He  is  not;  He  is  Heaven  and 
nc  evil  can/-  he  Jovmd  in  Heaven.  The  kingdom  of 
Heaven  is  within  us,  is  in  our  consciousness,  its  op- 
posite. f-v'A  cannot  exiet. 

Delight  thyself  also  in  the  Lord  and  He  shall  give 
thee  the  desires  of  thine  heart. 

Commit  thy  way  unto  the  Lord,  trust  also  in  Him 
and  He  shall  bring  it  to  pass. 

EVIL  A  LIE. 

When  we  speak  evil  of  a  brother  we  speak  a  lie. 
Evil  is  that  evil  thinketh.  Evil  does  not  exist. 
Truth  is,  nothing  else  is.  Let  us  beware  lest  we  con- 
demn an  innocent  man.  Better  suffer  a  wrong  than 
do  a  wrong.  Paul  says  "Why  will  ye  not  therefore 
take  wrong?"  Two  wrongs  never  make  a  right.  We 
should  never  permit  a  brother  to  knowingly  wrong 
us.  Nor  should  we  wrong  him.  Let  us  be  honest 
with  our  fellow-man  and  with  ourselves.  Honesty  is 
the  best  policy.  Let  man  be  just. 

Good  and  upright  is  the  Lord;  therefore  will  He 
teach  sinners  in  the  way.  Psalm  25. 

V.  19.  Consider  mine  enemies,  for  they  are  many, 
and  they  hate  me  with  a  cruel  hatred. 

"Forgive  them  for  they  know  not  what  they  do." 

Ps.  27,  1.  The  Lord  is  my  light  and  my  salvation: 
whom  shall  I  fear?  The  Lord  is  the  strength  of  my 
life,  of  whom  shall  I  be  afraid? 

V.  5.  For  in  the  time  of  trouble  he  shall  hide  me 
in  His  pavilion. 

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BLESSED  PROMISES. 

V.  14.  Wait  on  the  Lord,  be  of  good  courage,  and 
He  shall  strengthen  thine  heart.  Wait,  I  say,  on 
the  Lord. 

Ps.  37.  Trust  in  the  Lord  and  do  good;  So  shall 
thou  dwell  in  the  land,  and  verily  shalt  thou  be  fed. 

Judge  not  lest  ye  be  judged.  God  is  the  only 
judge,  and  His  judgment  is  righteous.  Therefore  if 
ye  judge,  judge  righteous  judgment. 

GOD  THE  ONLY  CREATOR. 

God's  word  declares  that  He  made  man,  male  and 
female  in  His  own  image  and  likeness.  And  it  was 
good,  yea  very  good.  Also  that  He  is  spirit,  mind, 
Divine  Principle.  He  created  all,  and  He  is  All  in 
All.  He  certainly  meant  that  all  He  created  should 
be  like  Himself,  good.  Can  absolute  good  be  found 
in  mortal  man?  He  knows  both  good  and  evil, 
doubleminded  unstable,  not  like  God's  creation. 
The  Adam  man  is  of  the  flesh,  fleshly.  God's  man 
is  of  spirit,  spiritual,  mind  only,  and  cannot  be  sick, 
suffer  and  sin.  This  sickly  mortal  so  called  man,  is 
not  of  God's  creation.  Yet  he  seems  to  exist  and 
p oosees  a  mind  and  intelligence.  But  it  is  the  seem- 
ing only,  not  reality.  Just  look  to  a  higher  intelli- 
gence, God,  and  let  that  higher  intelligence  rule  this 
so  called  mortal  intelligence,  and  all  will  be  har- 
mony, peace  and  health,  and  God's  blessing  will  be 
ours.  Seek  and  ye  shall  find.  It  is  worth  seeking; 
for  there  is  but  one  power  to  impart  life,  that  is 
God.  He  is  not  the  creator  of  death.  Man  knows 
good  from  evil,  health  from  sickness,  right  from 
wrong.  God  has  no  pleasure  in  the  death  of  the 
wicked.  The  great  mistake  of  mankind  is  that  he 
does  not  in  his  mind  destroy  the  thought  that  sin, 
sickness  and  death  exist  as  a  reality,  but  hold  to 
the  idea  that  it  is  only  a  belief. 

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OUR  RESURRECTION. 


By  an  Unknown  Writer. 

Out  of  the  sordid,  the  base,  the  untrue, 
Into  the  noble,  the  pure  and  the  new; 
Out  of  all  darkness,  and  sadness  and  sin, 
Spiritual  harmonies  to  win, 

This  is  our  resurrection. 

Out  of  all  discord  and  toil  and  strife, 
Into  a  calm  and  perfect  life, 
Out  of  all  hatred  and  jealous  fear 
Into  love's  cloudless  atmosphere, 
This  is  our  resurrection. 

Out  of  the  narrow  and  cramping  creeds 
Into  a  service  of  loving  deeds; 
Out  of  a  separate  limited  plan, 
Into  the  brotherhood  of  Man, 

This  is  our  resurrection. 

Out  of  our  weakness  to  conscious  power, 
Wisdom  and  strength  for  every  hour, 
Out  of  our  doubt  and  sore  dismay 
Into  the  faith  for  which  we  pray, 
This  is  our  resurrection. 

Out  of  the  bondage  of  sin  and  pain, 
Out  of  poverty's  galling  chain, 
Into  the  freedom  of  perfect  health 
Into  the  blessings  of  fadeless  wealth, 
This  is  our  resurrection. 
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Out  of  this  fleeting  mortal  breath, 
Out  of  the  valley  and  shadow  of  death, 
Into  the  light  of  the  perfect  way, 
Into  the  freedom  of  endless  day, 
This  is  our  resurrection. 

Out  of  the  finite  sense  of  things, 
Into  the  joy  the  Infinite  brings, 
Out  of  the  limits  of  time  and  space, 
Into  the  boundless  life  of  the  race, 
This  is  our  resurrection. 


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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


Page 

Man's  Obedience  to  the  Golden  Rule 9 

The  Beatitudes 12 

Healing  According  to  Christ  Jesus,  etc 14 

Understanding 23 

God  is  Our  Supply.... 27 

No  Evil  to  be  Feared,  etc 29 

Judge   Not  .  .     .30 

Love  31 

Think  Good,  Not  Evil 36 

Strained    Nerves, — Overwork 37 

Evil    38 

God  Our  Life 40 

Death  47 

Scriptural  Passages  on  Healing 50 

Healing  54 

Paul's  Faith  in  God 56 

The   Carnal  Mind,  etc 58 

Healing  60 

What  Material  Man  Has  Been  Taught 63 

Life    68 

Harmony    69 

Jesus  Our  Shepherd 71 

Miscellaneous   72 

Temper  81 

Good  and  Evil 82 

Great  and  Only  First  Cause 83 

Come  Let  Us  Reason  Together 84 

God's  Opposite  Not  a  Reality 84 

Carnal   Mind 85 

How  Did  Evil  Originate? 86 

Obedience  to  Christ  Jesus 88 

Can  We  Become  Sick  and  Die? 89 

God's   Law 90 

Purity   of  Thought 92 

Ask  Yourself  These  Questions 93 

Condemnation    94 

Is  There  Sin? 96 

Miscellaneous  Truths 99 

Our  Resurrection „  104 


JAS.  W.  McCLELLAN 

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